Jacques Rancière

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Born	1940 (age 85) • Algiers • Algeria
Subjects Of Study	Karl Marx • Marxism

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Swiss-born French philosopher

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

French philosopher

John Locke

English philosopher

Immanuel Kant

German philosopher

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

German philosopher

David Hume

Scottish philosopher

György Lukács

Hungarian philosopher

Bernard Bosanquet

British philosopher

Walter Benjamin

German literary critic

Antonio Labriola

Italian philosopher

Auguste Comte

French philosopher

Jean-Paul Sartre

French philosopher and author

Louis Althusser

French scholar

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

Socrates

Greek philosopher

Plato

Greek philosopher

Karl Marx

German philosopher

Thomas Hobbes

English philosopher

John Stuart Mill

British philosopher and economist

Bertrand Russell

British logician and philosopher

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