Paul Ricoeur (1913–2005)

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1. Paul Ricoeur

   Author of Essays on Biblical Interpretation, Fallible Man: Philosophy of the Will (Ricur, Paul. Philosophie De La Volonte.), Critique and Conviction

2. Jacques Derrida

   Author of Of Grammatology, Dissemination, Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, The Work of Mourning & the New International

3. Martin Heidegger

   Author of Being and Time, Poetry, Language, Thought, The basic problems of phenomenology [Die Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie [GA 24]]

4. Jürgen Habermas

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

5. Hans-Georg Gadamer

   Author of Truth and Method, Reason in the Age of Science (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), Hegel's Dialectic: Five Hermeneutical Studies

6. Jurgen Moltmann

   Author of The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ As the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology, The Trinity and the Kingdom: The Doctrine of God, The Church in the Power of the Spirit: A Contribution to Messianic Ecclesiology

7. Maurice Merleau-Ponty

   Author of Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge Classics), The Visible and the Invisible, Sense and Nonsense (SPEP)

8. Richard Rorty

   Author of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Essays on Heidegger and Others, Philosophy in History: Essays in the Historiography of Philosophy (Ideas in Context)

9. Hayden White

   Author of Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation, Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism

10. Edmund Husserl

    Author of Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy (Vol. 1), Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology (SPEP), Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology

11. Gilles Deleuze

    Author of Difference and Repetition, The Logic of Sense, Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza

12. Theodor W. Adorno

    Author of Aesthetic Theory, The Jargon of Authenticity, Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic (Theory and History of Literature)

13. George Steiner

    Author of After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation, Martin Heidegger, The Death of Tragedy

14. Soren Kierkegaard

    Author of Works of Love, Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Volume II, Training in Christianity

15. 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

16. Richard J. Bernstein

    Author of Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis, The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory, Habermas and Modernity

17. 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

18. Emmanuel Levinas

    Author of Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, Otherwise Than Being: Or Beyond Essence, Nine Talmudic Readings

19. Michel Foucault

    Author of The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences, Ethics (Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984 , Vol 1), The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the College de France 1981--1982 (Lectures at the College de France)

20. Walter Benjamin

    Author of Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1, 1913-1926 (Walter Benjamin), The Origin of German Tragic Drama, Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 3, 1935-1938