Leszek Kolakowski (1927–2009)

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1. Leszek Kolakowski

   Author of Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown, Modernity on Endless Trial, God Owes Us Nothing: A Brief Remark on Pascal's Religion and on the Spirit of Jansenism

2. Isaiah Berlin

   Author of Karl Marx: His Life and Environment, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, Personal Impressions

3. Perry Anderson

   Author of Passages from antiquity to feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism, Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas

4. Herbert Marcuse

   Author of One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, Reason and Revolution : Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory, Negations: Essays in Critical Theory

5. Ernst Cassirer

   Author of The Myth of the State, Kant's Life and Thought, Substance and Function and Einstein's Theory of Relativity

6. Charles Taylor

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

7. Alasdair MacIntyre

   Author of After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Second Edition, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition

8. Leo Strauss

   Author of History of Political Philosophy, Natural Right and History, Thoughts on Machiavelli

9. A. J. Ayer

   Author of The Problem of Knowledge, Bertrand Russell, Wittgenstein

10. Ryszard Kapuściński

    Author of The Shadow of the Sun, Imperium, The Emperor

11. Jean-Paul Sartre

    Author of Between Existentialism and Marxism, Critique of Dialectical Reason, Volume One, The Ghost of Stalin

12. 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), Logical Investigations (International Library of Philosophy)

13. Raymond Aron

    Author of Main Currents in Sociological Thought Volume I, The Opium of the Intellectuals, Mémoires

14. Georg Lukács

    Author of History and Class Consciousness, Lenin: A Study on the Unity of His Thought, The Young Hegel: Studies in the Relations between Dialectics and Economics

15. Bryan Magee

    Author of Confessions of a Philosopher, Popper, Men of Ideas

16. Stephen Edelston Toulmin

    Author of Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity, The Philosophy of Science: An Introduction, Foresight and Understanding: An Enquiry into the Aims of Science

17. Martin Jay

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

18. Bernard Williams

    Author of Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Shame and Necessity (Sather Classical Lectures, Vol 57), Truth and truthfulness: an essay in genealogy

19. Carl Schmitt

    Author of The Concept of the Political, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy

20. Russell Jacoby

    Author of The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe, Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology