Max Horkheimer (1895–1973)

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1. Theodor W. Adorno

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

2. Jürgen Habermas

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

3. Michel Foucault

   Author of Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge (An Introduction), The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences

4. Herbert Marcuse

   Author of One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, Eros and Civilization : A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, Reason and Revolution : Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory

5. Max Horkheimer

   Author of Dialectic of Enlightenment, Critical Theory (Critical Theory Ppr), Critique of Instrumental Reason (Critique of Reason Ppr)

6. Walter Benjamin

   Author of Illuminations, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings, Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1, 1913-1926 (Walter Benjamin)

7. Jacques Derrida

   Author of Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference

8. Fredric Jameson

   Author of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Marxism and Form, Late Marxism: Adorno or The Persistence of the Dialectic

9. Gilles Deleuze

   Author of Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Nietzsche and Philosophy

10. Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Author of The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Just Gaming, Postmodern Fables

11. Georg Lukács

    Author of History and Class Consciousness, Lenin: A Study on the Unity of His Thought, Marxism and human liberation; essays on history, culture and revolution

12. Martin Jay

    Author of The Dialectical Imagination, Adorno, Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukács to Habermas

13. Louis Althusser

    Author of For Marx, Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, Reading Capital

14. Hannah Arendt

    Author of The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy

15. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

    Author of Phenomenology of Spirit, Elements of the Philosophy of Right, The Encyclopaedia Logic: Part 1 of the Encyclopaedia of Philosophical Sciences With the Zusatze

16. Martin Heidegger

    Author of Being and Time, Heraclitus Seminar (SPEP)

17. Carl Schmitt

    Author of The Concept of the Political, Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy

18. Antonio Gramsci

    Author of Selections from the Prison Notebooks

19. Alexandre Kojève

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

20. Michael Hardt

    Author of Empire