Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

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1. Eric Hoffer

   Author of The True Believer, Reflections on the Human Condition, First Things, Last Things

2. Daniel J. Boorstin

   Author of The Discoverers, The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination, The Americans: The Colonial Experience

3. Richard Hofstadter

   Author of The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

4. Erich Fromm

   Author of The Fear of Freedom, The Sane Society, The Revolution of Hope, Toward a Humanized Technology.

5. Will Durant

   Author of The Story of Philosophy, The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time, Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age

6. Edward O. Wilson

   Author of Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, On Human Nature

7. Paul Johnson

   Author of Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky, The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830, The Renaissance: A Short History

8. Charles Mackay

   Author of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

9. William James

   Author of The Varieties of Religious Experience

10. Mortimer J. Adler

    Author of Ten Philosophical Mistakes

11. Allan Bloom

    Author of The Closing of the American Mind

12. Edith Hamilton

    Author of The Greek Way, The Roman Way

13. Julian Jaynes

    Author of The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

14. Konrad Lorenz

    Author of Hablaba con las bestias, los peces y los pájaros, On Aggression

15. Christopher Lasch

    Author of The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations, True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics

16. Robert L. Heilbroner

    Author of The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers

17. José Ortega y Gasset

    Author of The Revolt of the Masses

18. Jacques Barzun

    Author of From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, The House of Intellect

19. Ernest Becker

    Author of The Denial of Death

20. William Barrett

    Author of Irrational Man