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Born January 18, 1925 • Paris • France
Died November 4, 1995 (aged 70) • Paris • France
Notable Works “A Thousand Plateaus” • “Capitalism and Schizophrenia” • “Difference and Repetition” • “The Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia”
Subjects Of Study metaphysics
René Descartes
René Descartes
French mathematician and philosopher
Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
French philosopher
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida
French philosopher
Malebranche
Nicolas Malebranche
French priest
Louis Lavelle
French philosopher
Aristotle
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
Plato
Plato
Greek philosopher
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher
Benedict de Spinoza
Benedict de Spinoza
Dutch-Jewish philosopher
Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam
American philosopher
Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
German philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
George Berkeley
George Berkeley
Irish philosopher
Johann Gottfried von Herder
Johann Gottfried von Herder
German philosopher
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
German philosopher
Sir Michael A.E. Dummett
British philosopher
Tommaso Campanella
Italian philosopher and poet

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