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Andrew Inkpin
Philosopher at the University of Melbourne working at the intersection of phenomenology, philosophy of language, and Wittgensteinian community-of-practice analyses. Author of "Merleau-Ponty on painting, sedimentation, and the cultural worl…
Annabelle Dufourcq
French Merleau-Ponty scholar; author of Merleau-Ponty, une ontologie de l'imaginaire (Phaenomenologica vol. 204, Springer, 2012), a substantial monograph on MP's philosophy of the imaginary. The wiki encounters Dufourcq via Décarie-Daignea…
Aristotle
Ancient Greek philosopher (384–322 BCE), student of Plato, founder of the Lyceum, author of the Organon (the syllogistic logic), Metaphysics, Physics, De anima, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Poetics, and the biological works. On the wiki,…
Arthur Schopenhauer
German post-Kantian philosopher (1788–1860) whose system — laid out in Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (1818, expanded 1844) — articulates a metaphysics of the Will (the thing-in-itself underlying all phenomena), an ethics of compassion…
Baruch Spinoza
Dutch-Jewish rationalist philosopher (1632–1677), author of the Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrata (1677) and the Tractatus theologico-politicus (1670). On the wiki, Spinoza enters as the single most extensively engaged early-modern phil…
Benjamin Décarie-Daigneault
Penn State PhD researcher (bqd5342@psu.edu); author of two wiki-ingested papers:
Bernard Bolzano
Bohemian priest, mathematician, and logician (1781–1848), author of the Wissenschaftslehre (1837) — for Husserl "one of the greatest logicians of all time," whose work "far surpasses everything that world-literature has to offer in the way…
Bruno Latour
French philosopher / sociologist of science (1947–2022). Foundational figure in actor-network theory; author of We Have Never Been Modern (1991), Reassembling the Social (2005), An Inquiry into Modes of Existence (2013), and many other wor…
Caleb Faul
Department of Philosophy and Ethics, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. Author of "Ontologically Interactive Painting: On Susan Rothenberg's Three Heads," Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 55:2 (2024), 184–197 — the wi…
Carl Schmitt
German jurist and political theorist (1888–1985), author of Politische Theologie (1922), Die Diktatur (1921), Der Begriff des Politischen / The Concept of the Political (1927/1932), Der Nomos der Erde (1950), Theorie des Partisanen (1963),…
Carl Stumpf
German philosopher-psychologist (1848–1936), student of franz-brentano, professor at Berlin; teacher of the Gestalt psychologists (Köhler, Koffka, Wertheimer) and a founding figure of experimental phenomenology of sound (Tonpsychologie). F…
Christian Wolff
German philosopher (1679–1754), the systematizer of post-Leibnizian rationalism into the Schulphilosophie that dominated the eighteenth-century German universities until Kant. Author of two parallel encyclopedic systems — the Vernünftige G…
Claude Lefort
French political philosopher (1924–2010), Merleau-Ponty's student, literary executor, and principal editor of the posthumous course notes and working manuscripts. In the wiki's context, the editor of The Visible and the Invisible (1964) an…
Claude Lévi-Strauss
French anthropologist (1908–2009), founder of structural anthropology, and Merleau-Ponty's friend and colleague at the Collège de France. In Signs' "From Mauss to Claude Lévi-Strauss" (1959), MP reads Lévi-Strauss as the successor to Marce…
Daniel W. Smith
Daniel W. Smith is the translator of Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (English edition, Athlone / University of Chicago Press, 1997) and a noted scholar of Deleuze and twentieth-century French philosophy. His Translator…
David Morris
Contemporary Merleau-Ponty scholar at Concordia University (Montreal). Co-editor with Kym Maclaren of Time, Memory, Institution: Merleau-Ponty's New Ontology of Self (Ohio University Press, 2015), one of the principal English-language volu…
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher (1713–1784), co-editor of the Encyclopédie (1751–72), novelist, dramatist, art critic. The wiki tracks Diderot primarily as the author of Le Neveu de Rameau (1762, published posthumously 1805) — Diderot's d…
Didier Franck
French phenomenologist (b. 1947), professor at Paris-Nanterre. Best known on the wiki for Chair et corps: Sur la phénoménologie de Husserl (Minuit 1981) — the major French study of Husserl's phenomenology of flesh and body, which proposed…
E. H. Gombrich
Austrian-British art historian and philosopher of art (1909–2001). His Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960) develops a resemblance-and-schema account of pictorial representation: pictures represent…
Edmund Husserl
German philosopher (1859-1938), founder of phenomenology. In Merleau-Ponty's Course Notes, Husserl's entire philosophical trajectory is traced as an exemplary case of philosophy becoming "a problem for itself" — the internal radicalization…
Emilio Betti
Italian jurist, legal historian, and theorist of interpretation (1890–1968), author of the Teoria generale della interpretazione (1955) and Die Hermeneutik als allgemeine Methodik der Geisteswissenschaften (1962). In the wiki Betti is Gada…
Emmanuel Alloa
Contemporary continental philosopher specializing in phenomenology, aesthetics, and the legacy of Merleau-Ponty. On the wiki, Alloa is principally an editorial presence: co-editor (with Chouraqui and Kaushik) of Merleau-Ponty and Contempor…
Emmanuel de Saint Aubert
French philosopher and leading contemporary interpreter of Merleau-Ponty. Affiliated with the Husserl Archives in Paris (UMR 8547 ENS/CNRS). Author of a five-volume sequence that has systematically reconstructed MP's thought from the unpub…
Emmanuel Levinas
Lithuanian-born French philosopher (1906-1995). Author of Totality and Infinity (1961), Otherwise than Being (1974), and Existence and Existents (1947). In Knight's reading, Levinas is the principal counter-figure to Merleau-Ponty's elemen…
Emmanuel Mounier
French Catholic philosopher (1905–1950), founder and editor of the journal Esprit (1932– ), and central figure of the mid-twentieth-century personalist movement. Author of Manifeste au service du personnalisme (Aubier, 1936), Traité du car…
Ernst Cassirer
German neo-Kantian philosopher (1874–1945), best known for the Philosophie der symbolischen Formen (3 vols., 1923–29) and for the 1929 Davos disputation with Heidegger. For this wiki, Cassirer matters chiefly as the silent source of Merlea…
Felipe León
Phenomenologist working at the intersection of philosophy of mind, social philosophy, and Merleau-Ponty scholarship. Author of chapter 9 of Merleau-Ponty: Institution-Ontology-Politics (Brill 2026), the volume's third-part opening chapter…
Frank Chouraqui
French-trained, Anglophone-publishing philosopher of phenomenology (Leiden University), specialist on the structural convergence between Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty on the question of truth and on the formal structure of "intra-ontology" —…
Franz Brentano
Austrian philosopher (1838–1917), Catholic priest (laicized 1873), professor at Würzburg and Vienna. Best known to the wiki as the author of the 1862 dissertation Von der mannigfachen Bedeutung des Seienden nach Aristoteles (Freiburg im Br…
Franz Xaver von Baader
Bavarian Catholic philosopher and theologian (1765–1841), the Munich collaborator and credited precursor of Schelling in the Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (1809). Schelling explicitly credits Baader with th…
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
German philosopher (1743–1819), the principal anti-rationalist opponent in Schelling's 1809 Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom and the initiator of the Pantheismusstreit (1785). Jacobi's claim that the only cons…
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844–1900). Classical philologist by training, briefly professor at the University of Basel (1869–1879), author of a body of work spanning philology, cultural criticism, aesthetics, ethics, and — on Chouraqui's reading…
Friedrich Schleiermacher
German theologian and philosopher (1768–1834), the founder of modern universal hermeneutics and, in Gadamer's genealogy, the pivotal figure who deformed hermeneutics by detaching understanding from its subject-matter. In the wiki Schleierm…
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
German philosopher (1775-1854), founder of Naturphilosophie. In Knight's reading, Schelling is the decisive — and insufficiently acknowledged — influence on Merleau-Ponty's late ontology. Where the standard reception traces Merleau-Ponty's…
G. W. F. Hegel
German philosopher (1770–1831). Author of the Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807; ingested as hegel-1807-phenomenology-spirit), the Wissenschaft der Logik (1812-16, with the Doctrine of Being revised 1831-32; all three volumes now ingested —…
Gabriel Marcel
French Christian existentialist philosopher (1889–1973); author of Métaphysical Journal (1927), Être et avoir (1935; English: Being and Having 1949), Du refus à l'invocation (1940), Le Mystère de l'être (1951). One of the early-MP's princi…
Galen A. Johnson
Senior Anglophone Merleau-Ponty scholar; co-author (with Carbone and Saint Aubert) of Merleau-Ponty's Poetic of the World: Philosophy and Literature (Fordham University Press, 2020) — a genuine ten-year co-authorship rather than a collecte…
Gaston Bachelard
French philosopher of science and imagination (1884-1962). Author of Water and Dreams (1942), The Psychoanalysis of Fire (1938), The Poetics of Space (1958), and numerous other works on the material imagination. Knight argues that Bachelar…
Georg Lukács
Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary theorist, and political figure (1885–1971); author of Die Theorie des Romans (1916), Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein (1923 — the single most important work for MP's engagement), Der junge Hegel (19…
Georg Simmel
Berlin philosopher and sociologist (1858–1918) whose late Lebensphilosophie — the doctrine that life produces autonomous strata that transcend life — supplies one of the cardinal twentieth-century structural-philosophical alternatives to B…
Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille (1897–1962) was a French philosopher, novelist, and essayist whose reading of Nietzsche — and whose conception of sovereignty, expenditure, and the sacred — formed the milieu from which Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and th…
Georges Canguilhem
French philosopher, physician, and historian of science (1904–1995), author of The Normal and the Pathological (1943), and one of the central pedagogical and institutional figures of twentieth-century French thought — a "point of contact"…
Gilbert Ryle
British analytic philosopher (1900–1976), professor of metaphysical philosophy at Oxford (1945–68), editor of Mind. Author of The Concept of Mind (1949), the foundational text of mid-century philosophical behaviourism / dispositionalism, a…
Gilbert Simondon
French philosopher (1924–1989) best known for his theory of individuation and for his rehabilitation of the philosophical significance of technical objects. On this wiki he matters primarily as the background figure behind dividuation (Car…
Gilles Deleuze
French philosopher (1925–1995), author of Difference and Repetition (1968), Logic of Sense (1969), and (with Félix Guattari) Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980). Although a generation younger than Merleau-Ponty and not typic…
Giorgio Agamben
Italian philosopher (b. 1942), author of the Homo Sacer series (Homo Sacer, 1995; State of Exception, 2003; The Kingdom and the Glory, 2007; The Use of Bodies, 2014), The Coming Community (1990), The Open: Man and Animal (2002), What Is an…
Gorgias
Gorgias of Leontini (c. 483–375 BCE), the celebrated rhetorician and sophist after whom Plato's Gorgias is named, and (in the dialogue's world) the teacher of Meno. Unlike Protagoras, the dialogue's Gorgias does not claim to teach "virtue"…
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician (1646–1716), author of the Monadology (1714), the Discours de métaphysique (1686), the Theodicy (1710), co-inventor (with Newton) of the differential calculus, formulator of the principium rationis suff…
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German Aufklärung dramatist, critic, and philosopher (1729–1781), three roles in Schelling's Philosophical Investigations (1809): (1) the staged Spinozist in Jacobi's 1785 On the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Mr. Moses Mendelssohn — Le…
Gottlob Frege
German logician (1848–1925), founder of modern quantificational logic and — with Bolzano behind him — "the grandfather" of analytic philosophy (Dummett). He enters the wiki through his double relation to Husserl in the Logical Investigatio…
Graham Harman
American philosopher, founder of object-oriented ontology (OOO). Co-editor of The Speculative Turn (with Levi Bryant and Nick Srnicek, 2011); one of the original 2007 Goldsmiths College SR participants. Distinguishes himself from Meillasso…
H. L. Van Breda
Belgian Franciscan philosopher and historian of phenomenology (1911–1974); founder of the Husserl Archives at the Institut Supérieur de Philosophie of the University of Louvain. In autumn 1938, after Husserl's death earlier that year, Van…
Hans-Georg Gadamer
German philosopher (1900–2002), student of Heidegger (and of the Marburg neo-Kantians), and the founder of philosophical hermeneutics. His magnum opus Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode, 1960) reframed hermeneutics from a methodology o…
Henri Bergson
French philosopher (1859-1941), Nobel laureate (1927), author of Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience (1889), Matter and Memory (1896), Creative Evolution (1907), The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932), and Thought an…
Hippias of Elis
A prominent sophist of the late 5th century BCE from Elis, famous for polymathy — he professed to know and teach virtually everything (mathematics, astronomy, geometry, grammar, rhetoric, mnemonics, genealogy, poetry, history) and boasted…
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804), author of the three Critiques. In Merleau-Ponty's philosophy, Kant represents both the paradigm of transcendental thinking and its fundamental limitation: Kant grasps the necessity of the transcendental turn…
Jacques Derrida
French philosopher (1930–2004), founder of deconstruction, author of Of Grammatology (1967), Writing and Difference (1967), Margins of Philosophy (1972), The Truth in Painting (1978), The Post Card (1980), Specters of Marx (1993), On Touch…
Jacques Maritain
French Catholic philosopher (1882–1973), associated with the Thomist revival and the Catholic-personalist movement. Author of Humanisme intégral (1936) / True Humanism — the cardinal Catholic-personalist political-philosophical statement o…
Jakob Böhme
German theosophist (1575–1624), shoemaker by trade, born in Alt Seidenberg (Görlitz, Saxony). Author of the Aurora (1612), De signatura rerum, Mysterium Magnum, Sex puncta theosophica, and the Mysterium Pansophicum (1620), among other theo…
Jean Piaget
Swiss developmental psychologist and genetic epistemologist (1896–1980). For the wiki, Piaget matters as the contrast figure against whom Merleau-Ponty sets his own developmental phenomenology — and against whom Wallon is silently preferre…
Jean-Christophe Bailly
French writer, philosopher, poet, and essayist (b. 1949). Author of works on poetry, art, geography, animals, and time, often at the intersection of philosophy and literature. Close interlocutor of Nancy; co-editor (with Nancy) of La Compa…
Jean-François Lyotard
French philosopher (1924–1998); phenomenologist-turned-figural-theorist and later theorist of the "postmodern condition." For the purposes of this wiki he is primarily relevant as Carbone's interlocutor on the ontology of the screen — the…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan-French philosopher (1712–1778), author of Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes (1755), Du contrat social (1762), Émile, ou De l'éducation (1762), Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse (1761), Les Confess…
Jean-Louis Chrétien
French Catholic phenomenologist and poet (1952–2019). Major figure of what Dominique Janicaud (in The Theological Turn of French Phenomenology, 1991) named the "theological turn" of French phenomenology — alongside Levinas, Michel Henry, J…
Jean-Luc Nancy
French philosopher (1940-2021), major figure in contemporary continental philosophy. Author of works on community (The Inoperative Community), the body (Corpus, Corpus II, Sexistence, Marquage manquant), art (The Muses, Noli me tangere, Ad…
Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual (1905–1980). Merleau-Ponty's closest philosophical interlocutor through the 1940s and early 1950s, co-founder with MP of Les Temps Modernes (1945), and the addressee of the Introduction…
Johann Gottfried Herder
German philosopher, theologian, literary critic, and pioneering philosopher of history and language (1744–1803). Three roles in Schelling's 1809 Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom: (1) the author of God. Some Co…
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
German idealist philosopher (1762–1814), author of the Wissenschaftslehre (1794 and multiple revisions), the Grundlage des Naturrechts (1796), the Reden an die deutsche Nation (1808). On the wiki, Fichte enters as a foil in Hegel's WdL: (i…
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German poet, novelist, natural-philosopher (1749–1832); cardinal figure of Weimar Klassik; his works span lyric poetry, drama (Faust I/II), the Bildungsroman (Wilhelm Meister), the philosophical novel (Die Wahlverwandtschaften), and natura…
John Stuart Mill
English philosopher and logician (1806–1873), author of A System of Logic (1843). He enters the wiki as the chief named target of Husserl's Prolegomena (husserl-1900-logical-investigations-vol1) — the paradigm of "extreme, consistent psych…
Juan Manuel Garrido
Chilean philosopher of science and technology, working at the intersection of philosophy of biology, phenomenology of life, and political theory of techno-science. Linked to the Granel circle (Granel was his teacher) and the late-Nancean o…
Jürgen Habermas
German philosopher and social theorist (b. 1929), the leading second-generation figure of the Frankfurt School and of the critique of ideology. In the wiki he appears as Gadamer's critical-theory interlocutor — the source of the most influ…
Karl Jaspers
German-Swiss psychiatrist and existentialist philosopher (1883–1969), author of Philosophie (three vols., 1932), Existenzphilosophie (1938), Vom Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte (1949), and many other works. With Heidegger, one of the two…
Karl Marx
German philosopher, economist, and political theorist (1818–1883); co-author with Friedrich Engels of The Communist Manifesto (1848); author of Capital (Vol. I 1867), the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (published 1932), The G…
Kazimierz Twardowski
Polish philosopher (1866–1938), student of franz-brentano, founder of the Lwów–Warsaw school. His Zur Lehre vom Inhalt und Gegenstand der Vorstellungen (1894) — the content/object distinction within every presentation — is the proximate Br…
Leon Trotsky
Russian revolutionary and Marxist theorist (1879–1940); leader of the Red Army in the Russian Civil War; principal Bolshevik opponent of Stalin after Lenin's death; expelled from the USSR in 1929; founder of the Fourth International in 193…
Lisa van Sorge
Phenomenologist at Tilburg University working in contemporary Dutch phenomenological aesthetics. Author of "Painting as an Embodied Act of Framing: Toward a Phenomenological Aesthetics with Merleau-Ponty and Derrida" (Open Access, CC-BY-4.…
Luca Taddio
Italian philosopher at the University of Udine, working at the intersection of Merleau-Pontyan phenomenology, Italian Gestalt experimental phenomenology (Trieste school: Bozzi, Burigana, Massironi, Kanizsa), and the philosophy of pictorial…
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian-British philosopher (1889–1951). His later work — Philosophical Investigations (1953/2003), Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology (1980, Vols. 1–2) — engages problems of perception, depiction, aspect-seeing, and the relation bet…
Léon Brunschvicg
French neo-Kantian philosopher (1869–1944); Sorbonne professor (1909–40); a dominant figure in French academic philosophy during MP's formation (late 1920s–early 1930s). Author of Les Étapes de la philosophie mathématique (1912), Le Progrè…
Maine de Biran
French philosopher (1766–1824) of the body's motor-evidence and of the fait primitif. Author of the Essai sur les fondements de la psychologie et sur ses rapports avec l'étude de la nature. Per Saint Aubert (2006 Ch II §2), Biran is a card…
Marie-Eve Morin
Canadian philosopher (Professor of Philosophy, University of Alberta), comparative continental ontologist. Editorial Advisory Board of the New Perspectives in Ontology series (Edinburgh University Press). Editor of Continental Realism and…
Martin Heidegger
German philosopher (1889-1976). In Merleau-Ponty's Course Notes, Heidegger receives "the most rigorous, detailed, and explicit engagement" found anywhere in Merleau-Ponty's oeuvre (Course 1, Part II.B). Merleau-Ponty traces the passage fro…
Maurice Blondel
French Catholic philosopher (1861–1949), author of L'Action (1893) and L'Être et les êtres. Essai d'ontologie concrète et intégrale (1935). Per Saint Aubert (2006 Ch III §2b), Blondel is the cardinal genealogical source for Merleau-Ponty's…
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
French phenomenologist and philosopher (1908-1961). Professor at the Collège de France from 1952 until his sudden death from a heart attack on May 3, 1961 — he was reading Descartes's Dioptrique and preparing notes for his course "Cartesia…
Maurice Nédoncelle
French Catholic philosopher (1905–1976), close to the Mounier / Esprit circle and a major contributor to the personalist literature. Author of La Réciprocité des consciences (Aubier, 1942), La Personne humaine et la nature (PUF), and many…
Mauro Carbone
Italian philosopher (b. 1956) working primarily in French; specialist in Merleau-Ponty's aesthetics and ontology, and in the philosophical significance of cinema and digital screens. Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France; P…
Max Scheler
German phenomenologist (1874–1928); Munich phenomenology school. Author of Der Formalismus in der Ethik und die materiale Wertethik (1913–16), Vom Umsturz der Werte (collection containing "Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen", 1912), Di…
Meister Eckhart
German Dominican theologian and mystic (c. 1260 – c. 1328), one of the cardinal voices of medieval Rhineland mysticism. Currently appears in the wiki as the proof-text anchor for love-as-ungrounded-primary-category in Simmel's love-fragmen…
Michel de Montaigne
French Renaissance philosopher (1533–1592), author of the Essais. Merleau-Ponty reads Montaigne in Signs' "Reading Montaigne" (1947) as a proto-phenomenologist of incarnation — the first modern philosopher who takes "the 'mixture' of the s…
Nelson Goodman
American philosopher (1906–1998), exponent of analytic aesthetics and constructive nominalism. His Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols (1968; 2nd ed. 1976) develops a denotational/symbolic theory of pictorial representatio…
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian political theorist and diplomat (1469–1527), author of The Prince and the Discourses on Titus Livy. In Signs' "A Note on Machiavelli" (1949, originally given to a Rome-Florence conference on humanism and political science), Merleau…
Nicolas Berdyaev
Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher (1874–1948), exiled to France (1922) after expulsion from the Soviet Union; one of the central figures of the early-20th-century existentialist-personalist line. Author of The Meaning of the Creative…
Novalis
German poet, philosopher, and mystic (1772–1801), born Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg. Major figure of early German Romanticism (the Jena circle, alongside Friedrich and August Wilhelm Schlegel, Tieck, Schelling). Author of Hymnen…
Parmenides
Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (c. 515 BCE – after 450 BCE), of Elea in Magna Graecia. Author of a hexameter philosophical poem (the so-called Lehrgedicht) of which only fragments survive — most importantly Fragment I (the proem) and Fragm…
Paul Natorp
German neo-Kantian philosopher (1854–1924), with Cohen the head of the Marburg school. In this corpus he is the named opponent of Investigation V's chapter on consciousness (husserl-1901-logical-investigations-vol2) — and, through the seco…
Paul Yorck von Wartenburg
German philosopher and count (1835–1897), known chiefly through his correspondence with Dilthey and his fragmentary posthumous papers. In Gadamer's Ch 3 he is the surprise hero — "the missing link between Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind and…
Philippe Grosos
French philosopher; author of Des profondeurs de nos cavernes — Préhistoire – Art – Philosophie (Paris: Les éditions du Cerf, 2021), a book-length philosophical engagement with prehistoric cave art. Grosos advocates a shift in philosophica…
Pierre Klossowski
Pierre Klossowski (1905–2001) was a French novelist, essayist, translator, and painter whose Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (1969) is one of the most influential and idiosyncratic readings of Nietzsche in twentieth-century European thoug…
Plato
Athenian philosopher (427–347 BCE), founder of the Academy, and author of the dialogues that became — already in late antiquity — the central texts of philosophy as such (Cooper, Introduction). For this wiki he is primarily a latent ancest…
Protagoras
Protagoras of Abdera (c. 490–420 BCE), the first and most famous of the Greek sophists — itinerant professional teachers of aretē (excellence/virtue) — and the figure after whom Plato's Protagoras is named. He appears in the wiki in two di…
Quentin Meillassoux
French philosopher (b. 1967), central figure in the speculative realist movement that emerged from the April 2007 Goldsmiths College workshop. Author of Après la finitude (2006; After Finitude, trans. Brassier 2008) — the foundational SR t…
Rajiv Kaushik
Professor of Philosophy at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Specialist in Merleau-Ponty's ontology, phenomenology, and psychoanalysis. Author of Merleau-Ponty Between Philosophy and Symbolism: The Matrixed Ontology (SUNY…
Renaud Barbaras
French phenomenologist (b. 1955), Professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Largely credited with sparking the Merleau-Ponty "renaissance" in French phenomenology in the early 1990s. Author of The Being of the Phenomenon: Merleau-…
René Descartes
French philosopher and mathematician (1596–1650). Already pervasive in this wiki as a topic (the cogito, the Cartesian way that Merleau-Ponty and Husserl both contest; "Descartes as a cultural institution … singular like a tone, a style, o…
Sara Ahmed
Independent feminist scholar (formerly Goldsmiths, University of London; Lancaster University), working at the intersections of feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory, postcolonialism, and phenomenology. Author of Queer Phenom…
Sebastian Gardner
Professor of Philosophy at University College London; specialist on Kant, Schelling, and German Idealism, with sustained engagement of how the post-Kantian tradition bears on continental philosophy of mind and ontology. Two wiki sources sp…
Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual (1908–1986). Educated at the École Normale Supérieure during the same period as Merleau-Ponty (Sorbonne / ENS late-1920s); lifelong intellectual partner of Sartre; author of Le deuxième…
Slavoj Žižek
Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist (b. 1949), the most prominent contemporary exponent of a Lacanian-Hegelian reading of German Idealism. For this wiki Žižek matters in two roles: (1) as the author of The Indivisible Remainder: An…
Socrates
Athenian philosopher (c. 470–399 BCE), executed on charges of impiety and corrupting the youth, and the principal speaker of most of Plato's dialogues. Socrates wrote nothing: he philosophized only orally, in face-to-face question-and-answ…
Steven Shaviro
American philosopher and media theorist, DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. Author of Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics (2009); The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism (2014); and other wo…
Søren Kierkegaard
Danish philosopher and theologian (1813–1855), the père fondateur of modern existentialism, who articulated the "irreducibility of the source and spring of liberty" against the impersonal architectonic of Hegel's System. Author of Either/O…
Taylor Knight
Author of Merleau-Ponty and the Essence of Nature: A Return to Elemental Symbolism (Edinburgh University Press, New Perspectives in Ontology series, 2024; foreword by Emmanuel Falque) — the wiki's primary source for the elemental-ontology…
Ted Toadvine
American philosopher and Merleau-Ponty scholar; author of The Memory of the World: Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology (University of Minnesota Press, 2024). A key interpreter of MP's later philosophy of nature, animality, and the pre-pe…
Terry Pinkard
American philosopher (Professor at Georgetown), one of the foremost Anglophone Hegel scholars of the late 20c and early 21c. The wiki tracks Pinkard as the translator and editor of the 2018 Cambridge edition of Hegel's Phänomenologie des G…
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588–1679), author of De Cive (1642/1647), Leviathan (1651), De Corpore (1655), De Homine (1658), Behemoth (1668, published posthumously 1681), Decameron Physiologicum (1678). The foundational figure of modern state-so…
Vladimir Lenin
Russian revolutionary and Marxist theorist (1870–1924); leader of the Bolshevik faction from 1903, of the Russian Revolution from 1917, and head of the Soviet government until his death. Author of What Is To Be Done? (1902), Materialism an…
Wilhelm Dilthey
German philosopher (1833–1911), Schleiermacher's biographer, and the great theorist of the "critique of historical reason" who sought to ground the human sciences (Geisteswissenschaften) in life. In Gadamer's genealogy he is the central pr…
William James
American philosopher and psychologist (1842–1910), founder (with Peirce) of pragmatism and author of The Principles of Psychology (1890), The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), and Pragmatism (1907). In the wiki he enters as Bergson…