Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)

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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. Jacques Derrida

   Author of Of Grammatology, Dissemination, The Truth in Painting

3. Friedrich Nietzsche

   Author of The Portable Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs, On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

4. Michel Foucault

   Author of Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge (An Introduction), Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977

5. Gilles Deleuze

   Author of A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Difference and Repetition

6. Ludwig Wittgenstein

   Author of Philosophical Investigations, The Blue and Brown Books, On Certainty

7. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

8. Immanuel Kant

   Author of Critique of Pure Reason, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, The Critique of Judgement / The Critique of Practical Reason / The Critique of Pure Reason

9. Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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

10. Edmund Husserl

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

11. 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

12. Walter Benjamin

    Author of Illuminations, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings, Moscow Diary

13. Emmanuel Levinas

    Author of Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, Otherwise Than Being: Or Beyond Essence, Ethics and Infinity: Conversations With Philippe Nemo

14. Richard Rorty

    Author of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, Essays on Heidegger and Others

15. Jean-Paul Sartre

    Author of Being and Nothingness, The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness, Literary Essays

16. Theodor W. Adorno

    Author of Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, Aesthetic Theory, Prisms

17. Soren Kierkegaard

    Author of The Sickness Unto Death, Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death, Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Volume II

18. Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Author of The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, The Differend: Phrases in Dispute, The Inhuman: Reflections on Time

19. Hubert L. Dreyfus

    Author of Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time, Division I.

20. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling

    Author of Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom, On the History of Modern Philosophy (Texts in German Philosophy), The Ages of the World: (Fragment) from the Handwritten Remains, Third Versionj (C. 1815) (Suny Series in Contemporary Co