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Scott Adams


Theodor W. Adorno


James Agee

Christopher Alexander

Tariq Ali

Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Louis Althusser

Anselm


Hannah Arendt


Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Matthew Arnold

Source: "Matthew Arnold", by G. W. E. Russell (Project Gutenberg)
Augustine

Averroes

Detail from the 14th century fresco 'Triunfo de Santo Tomás' by Florantine artist Andrea Bonaiuto.
Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
Mikhail Bakunin

Photo by Félix Nadar (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Wayne Douglas Barlowe

Photograph courtesy of Wayne Douglas Barlowe
Lynda Barry

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Roland Barthes

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Georg Büchner

James Beard

Photo by Dan Wynn © Elisabeth Wynn.
Used with permission of the James Beard Foundation.

Simone De Beauvoir

Cesare Beccaria


Alison Bechdel

Photo by Greg Martin
Samuel Beckett

Edward Bellamy

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Saul Bellow


Walter Benjamin

Henri Bergson

George Berkeley

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)

Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Mark Bittman

Evan Sung

Julia Blackburn

Jerry Bauer
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Maurice Blanchot

Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Boethius

Jorge Luis Borges

James Boswell

Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Samuel Bowles

Journalist Samuel Bowles, 1826-1878: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-39653)
Berkeley Breathed

Eye on Books
Jerome Bruner

© Vincent W. Hevern
Bill Buford

Gaspar Tringale
Thomas Bulfinch

Edmund Burke

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Kenneth Burke

Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Judith Butler

Jreberlein
Samuel Butler

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Stanley Cavell

Jorge Cham

photography by rax

Julia Child

Christopher Hirsheimer
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
E. M. Cioran

Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998)
Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko, October 18, 1968.
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Daniel Clowes

Photograph by Sean Dejecacion
Andrei Codrescu

"Andrei Codrescu (author) and Rochelle Hartman (librarian), January 1999." (Rochelle Hartman)
Loren Coleman

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Auguste Comte

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Stewart Cowley

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Mike Dash

Photograph © Harry Borden
Angela Y. Davis


Mike Davis


Guy Debord

Jacques Derrida

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
John Donne

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Eamon Dunphy

wikipedia
Gwynne Dyer

Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
T. S. Eliot

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Frederick Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
1856 photograph
Epictetus

wikimedia commons
Desiderius Erasmus

Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Frantz Fanon

Paul Feyerabend

Photo credit: Grazzia Borrini-Feyerabend
J. G. Fichte

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Michel Foucault

Thomas Frank

Wikimedia Commons

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of Congress
John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Eduardo Galeano

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Laurie Garrett

Credit: Pierre Omidyar (Flickr)
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Erving Goffman

American Sociological Association
Philip Gourevitch

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
Aliza Green

Graham Greene

Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
Ernesto Che Guevara

Alberto Korda
Jürgen Habermas

Wolfram Huke / Wikimedia Commons
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Alexander Hamilton

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Martin Heidegger

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Robert Herrick

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Hesiod

Christopher Hitchens

Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Max Horkheimer

From
Wikipedia,
Horkheimer (front left), in 1965 at Heidelberg.
Marya Hornbacher

maryahornbacher.com
Nick Hornby

David Hume

from Wikipedia
Edmund Husserl

Henrik Ibsen

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
George Iles

The Library of Science
Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Molly Ivins

Michael Jackson

Crop from bigger picture. Taken by Päivi Kuusjärvi, Helsinki Beer Festival, April 2004.
Jane Jacobs

Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert

C.L.R. James

Henry James

Wikipedia
William James

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Tove Jansson

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
Julian Jaynes

John Burlinson
Chalmers Johnson

Photo courtesy of Chalmers Johnson
James W. Johnson

From: TWENTIETH CENTURY NEGRO LITERATURE
OR A CYCLOPEDIA OF THOUGHT ON THE
VITAL TOPICS RELATING TO THE AMERICAN NEGRO. 1902.
Samuel Johnson

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
Barbara Jordan

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
James Joyce

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Franz Kafka


Immanuel Kant

Stanley Karnow

Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)
John Maynard Keynes

Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Jon Krakauer

Photo by Roman Dial for Sundance Channel - Sean Penn & Jon Krakauer in Alaska filming the Sundance Channel original series
Iconoclasts produced by Sundance Channel & Grey Goose
Peter D. Kramer

Karl Kraus

Saul A. Kripke

Prof. Saul A. Kripke. Photo credit: Robert P. Matthews, 1983 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Stanley Kutler

Jacques Lacan

Langenscheidt

Gustav Langenscheidt. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

V. I. Lenin

Primo Levi

Claude Levi-Strauss

C. S. Lewis

George Christoph Lichtenberg

Portrait by Johann Ludwig Strecker (1744), print by J.C. Krueger
H. G. Liddell

H. G. Liddell. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Georg Lukács

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Niccolo Machiavelli

Charles Mackay


Moses Maimonides

Thomas Malthus

Thomas Mann

Mao Tsetung

from Wikipedia
Herbert Marcuse


Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
J.D. Mcclatchy

Rand McNally


Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
H. L. Mencken


W. S. Merwin

(c) Matthew Schwart
Mark Crispin Miller

Courtesy of Expathos Netherlands
Kate Millett

John Stuart Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
A.A. Milne

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Milton

Charles Montesquieu

Wikipédia France
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)

Howard Nemerov

Pablo Neruda

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Donald A. Norman

jnd.org

Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Ovid

Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
Charles Sanders Peirce

Jacques Pépin

Christopher Hirsheimer
Samuel Pepys

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Katha Pollitt

http://www.dentontaylor.com
William Poundstone

Hatchette Book Group USA
J. W. Powell

John Wesley Powell (1834-1902)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-3862)
Marcel Proust

Monty Python

Four of the six members from Monty Python, and Foot. Photo collage by Husky; Eric Idle by VTscapes - Tom E. Canavan; Terry Gilliam by Rita Molnár; Michael Palin by Chipps; John Cleese by Alan Light; Foot - Public Domain
W. V. Quine

Courtesy of Dr. Douglas Quine.
John Rawls


Marc Reisner

Photo by Ty Barbour, Chico Enterprise Record
Richard Rhodes

Nancy Warner
David Ricardo

Paul Ricoeur

Maximilien Robespierre

Anonymous Portrait of Maximilien Robespierre c. 1793. From
WikipediaFrançois de la Rochefoucauld

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Theodore Roethke

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Joanna Russ

Liz Henry
Gilbert Ryle

Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Jean-Paul Sartre

Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
George Saunders

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

J. C. F. von Schiller

Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John R. Searle

Photo by Matthew Breindel / Wikimedia Commons
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Anne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
David Allen Sibley

Photo by Carolynne Bailey

Georg Simmel

B. F. Skinner

PsychArt
Adam Smith

Jeff Smith

Photo by Fritz Saalfield, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Roger Smith

Susan Sontag

Sophocles

Georges Sorel

Oswald Spengler


Benedictus de Spinoza

Robert Stone

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Theodor Storm

Photography (1886)
August Strindberg

From Wikimedia Commons
Cass R. Sunstein

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Algernon Charles Swinburne

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Matt Taibbi

St. Thomas Aquinas

Dylan Thomas


Hunter S. Thompson


Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Alexis De Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
Calvin Trillin

Leon Trotsky

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35130
G. B. Trudeau

Garry Trudeau in 1995, with his father Francis B. Trudeau, Jr. (founder of the
Trudeau Institute, an independent, not-for-profit biomedical research center) (courtesy of Garry Trudeau and the Institute)
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Edward R. Tufte

Flickr user fortdrastic (2005).
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Sun Tzu

Paul Valery

Thorstein Veblen

Wikipedia
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)

Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright

Margaret Visser

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Max Weber

H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Nathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Edmund Wilson

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
P.G. Wodehouse

Tom Wolfe

Philip Wylie

NYWT&S Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-118224
Irvin D. Yalom

Reid Yalom
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)

Slavoj Zizek

Photo by Andy Miah
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