Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002)

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1. Martin Heidegger

   Author of Being and Time, Poetry, Language, Thought, History of the concept of time : prolegomena [Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs [GA 20]]

2. Paul Ricoeur

   Author of Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation (The Terry Lectures Series), Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning, History and Truth

3. Jürgen Habermas

   Author of The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), Knowledge and Human Interests, Theory and Practice

4. Hans-Georg Gadamer

   Author of Truth and Method, Reason in the Age of Science (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), Hegel's Dialectic: Five Hermeneutical Studies

5. Jacques Derrida

   Author of Of Grammatology, On the Name, Aporias (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

6. Maurice Merleau-Ponty

   Author of Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge Classics), The Visible and the Invisible, Sense and Nonsense (SPEP)

7. Richard Rorty

   Author of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth, Essays on Heidegger and Others

8. Edmund Husserl

   Author of Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology (SPEP), Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy (Vol. 1), Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology

9. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

   Author of Phenomenology of Spirit, Early Theological Writings (Works in Continental Philosophy), Hegel: Philosophy of Mind (Hegel's Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences)

10. Immanuel Kant

    Author of Critique of Pure Reason, The Critique of Judgement / The Critique of Practical Reason / The Critique of Pure Reason

11. Richard J. Bernstein

    Author of Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis, Habermas and Modernity, Praxis and Action: Contemporary Philosophies of Human Activity

12. Theodor W. Adorno

    Author of Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, The Jargon of Authenticity, Quasi Una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Music (The Verso Classics Series)

13. Ludwig Wittgenstein

    Author of Philosophical Investigations, Lectures & conversations on aesthetics, psychology and religious belief, Zettel

14. Alasdair MacIntyre

    Author of After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Second Edition, A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century, Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition

15. Jean Hyppolite

    Author of Genesis and Structure of Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" (SPEP), Studies on Marx and Hegel

16. Michel Foucault

    Author of The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences, Foucault Live: Interviews, 1961-84, Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel

17. Charles Taylor

    Author of Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, Hegel

18. Max Horkheimer

    Author of Dialectic of Enlightenment, Eclipse of Reason (Eclipse of Reason Ppr)

19. Alexandre Kojève

    Author of Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit

20. Emmanuel Levinas

    Author of Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority