Jacques Lacan (1901–1981)

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1. Jacques Lacan

   Author of The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan), Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the école freudienne

2. Jacques Derrida

   Author of Of Grammatology, Dissemination, The Truth in Painting

3. Slavoj Žižek

   Author of Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture, Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out, For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor

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, Cinema 1: Movement-Image

6. Sigmund Freud

   Author of The Interpretation of Dreams, Three essays on the theory of sexuality, Beyond the Pleasure Principle

7. Roland Barthes

   Author of Image-Music-Text, Writing Degree Zero, The Semiotic Challenge

8. Giorgio Agamben

   Author of The Open: Man and Animal, The Man Without Content (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics), Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy

9. Walter Benjamin

   Author of Illuminations, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings, Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism

10. Jean Laplanche

    Author of The Language of Psycho-Analysis, Essays on Otherness (Warwick Studies in European Philosophy), New Foundations for Psychoanalysis

11. Martin Heidegger

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

12. Alain Badiou

    Author of Deleuze: The Clamor of Being, The Century, Handbook Of Inaesthetics

13. Bruce Fink

    Author of The Lacanian Subject, A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique, Lacan to the Letter: Reading Ecrits Closely

14. Georges Bataille

    Author of Accursed Share, Vol. 1: Consumption, Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 14), Inner Experience (Suny Series : Intersections : Philosophy and Critical Theory)

15. Louis Althusser

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

16. Judith Butler

    Author of Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left

17. Paul de Man

    Author of Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism, Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust

18. Fredric Jameson

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

19. Julia Kristeva

    Author of Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, Black Sun, The Kristeva Reader

20. Jacques Rancière

    Author of The Politics of Aesthetics, On the Shores of Politics, Hatred of Democracy