Karl Jaspers (1883–1969)

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1. Karl Jaspers

   Author of Man in the Modern Age, Philosophy of Existence (Works in Continental Philosophy), Strindberg and Van Gogh: An attempt of a pathographic analysis with reference to parallel cases of Swedenborg and Hölde

2. Martin Heidegger

   Author of Being and Time, Poetry, Language, Thought, The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays

3. Ernst Cassirer

   Author of Language and Myth, The Myth of the State, Kant's Life and Thought

4. Friedrich Nietzsche

   Author of The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs, On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

5. Soren Kierkegaard

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

6. 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

7. Hannah Arendt

   Author of The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Between Past and Future

8. Walter A. Kaufmann

   Author of Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist, Critique of Religion and Philosophy, Tragedy and Philosophy

9. 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

10. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

    Author of Phenomenology of Spirit, The Philosophy of History, Hegel: Philosophy of Mind (Hegel's Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences)

11. George Steiner

    Author of After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation, Martin Heidegger, Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman

12. Jürgen Habermas

    Author of Knowledge and Human Interests, Legitimation Crisis, Theory and Practice

13. Alfred North Whitehead

    Author of Science and the Modern World, Process and Reality (Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh During the Session 1927-28), The Function of Reason

14. Henri Bergson

    Author of Creative Evolution, The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion

15. Paul Tillich

    Author of The Courage to Be, Dynamics of Faith, Protestant Era

16. Rudolf Bultmann

    Author of Jesus Christ and Mythology, Primitive Christianity in its contemporary setting, Theology of the New Testament

17. Jean-Paul Sartre

    Author of Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate, Search for a Method, Literary Essays

18. Jacques Maritain

    Author of Man and the State, Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry, Existence and the Existent

19. Arthur Schopenhauer

    Author of The World as Will and Representation, The World As Will and Representation: In Two Volumes, Vol. II, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason

20. Carl Schmitt

    Author of The Concept of the Political, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, Political Romanticism