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The list Philosophers of art includes Friedrich Nietzsche, Simone de Beauvoir, John Cage, Aristotle and Philip K. Dick. The list consists of 374 members and 5 sublists.
  • 1.

    Victor Hugo
    French novelist, poet, and dramatist (1802–1885)
    Victor Hugo
    Overview: Victor-Marie Hugo ( 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years ...
    Date of birth: 26 February 1802
    Date of death: 22 May 1885
    Age: 83 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)
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    Philosophical theists 22T
    French writers exiled in Belgium 2T
    Literary peers 21T
  • 2.

    bell hooks
    American author and activist (1952–2021)
    bell hooks
    Overview: Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 – December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American author, professor, feminist, and social activist. The name "bell hooks" is borrowed ...
    Date of birth: 25 September 1952
    Date of death: 15 December 2021
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Sociologist
    Gender: Female
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    American socialist feminists 110T
    21st-century pseudonymous writers 421T
    20th-century pseudonymous writers 906T
  • 3.

    Friedrich Nietzsche
    19th-century philosopher
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    Overview: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ( 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual ...
    Date of birth: 15 October 1844
    Date of death: 25 August 1900
    Age: 55 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)
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    Anti-nationalists 17T
    German critics of Christianity 18T
    People associated with the University of Basel 11T
  • 4.

    Simone de Beauvoir
    French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
    Simone de Beauvoir
    Overview: Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (, ;), 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist ...
    Date of birth: 9 January 1908
    Date of death: 14 April 1986
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Bisexual women writers 185T
    French bisexual writers 28T
    20th-century French LGBT people 124T
  • 5.

    Marcel Proust
    French novelist, literary critic, and essayist (1871–1922)
    Marcel Proust
    Overview: Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost ...
    Date of birth: 10 July 1871
    Date of death: 18 November 1922
    Age: 51 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century French LGBT people 124T
    19th-century French LGBT people 23T
    Deaths from pneumonia in France 59T
  • 6.

    John Cage
    American avant-garde composer (1912–1992)
    John Cage
    Overview: John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer, music theorist, artist, and philosopher. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard ...
    Date of birth: 5 September 1912
    Date of death: 12 August 1992
    Age: 79 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Composer
    Gender: Male
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    LGBT classical composers 103T
    Sub Rosa Records artists 22T
    Music & Arts artists 69T
  • 7.

    Aristotle
    Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath (384–322 BC)
    Aristotle
    Overview: Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs, 384–322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He was the founder of the Lyceum and the Peripatetic school of ...
    Nationality: Greek
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    4th-century BC mathematicians 10T
    Students of Plato 2T
    Ancient Greek economists 3T
  • 8.

    Philip K. Dick
    American science fiction writer
    Philip K. Dick
    Overview: Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American writer known for his work in science fiction. He wrote 44 published novels and approximately 121 short stories, most of which ...
    Date of birth: 16 December 1928
    Date of death: 2 March 1982
    Age: 53 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Philosophers of literature 95T
    American male non-fiction writers 4,581T
    Novelists from Illinois 359T
  • 9.

    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    American author (1922–2007)
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    Overview: Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American writer and humorist known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. In a career spanning over 50 years, he published fourteen novels ...
    Date of birth: 11 November 1922
    Date of death: 11 April 2007
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)
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    American critics of Christianity 72T
    21st-century American male artists 897T
    20th-century American male artists 3,686T
  • 10.

    Ezra Pound
    American poet and critic (1885–1972)
    Ezra Pound
    Overview: Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during ...
    Date of birth: 30 October 1885
    Date of death: 1 November 1972
    Age: 87 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
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    People from Felpham 19T
    American propagandists 28T
    Fascist writers 14T
  • 11.

    Slavoj Zizek
    Slovenian philosopher
    Slavoj Zizek
    Overview: Slavoj Žižek ( SLAH-voy ZHEE-zhek; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher, a researcher at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts and international director ...
    Date of birth: 21 March 1949
    Age: 76
    Nationality: Slovenian
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    Slovenian Marxist writers 1T
    Critics of political economy 21T
    Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis alumni 21T
  • 12.

    Martin Heidegger
    German philosopher
    Martin Heidegger
    Overview: Martin Heidegger (26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) was a German philosopher who is widely regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. He is best known for contributions ...
    Date of birth: 26 September 1889
    Date of death: 26 May 1976
    Age: 86 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    People from Meßkirch 7T
    Nazi Party members 498T
    Social critics 406T
  • 13.

    Václav Havel
    President of the Czech Republic
    Václav Havel
    Overview: Václav Havel ( 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, writer and former dissident, who served as the last President of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czecho ...
    Date of birth: 5 October 1936
    Date of death: 18 December 2011
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: Czech
    Occupation: Politician
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)
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    Absurdist writers 7T
    International Simón Bolívar Prize recipients 11T
    Political prisoners 68T
  • 14.

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and polymath (1749–1832)
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    Overview: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, critic, and amateur artist. His works include plays, poetry ...
    Date of birth: 28 August 1749
    Date of death: 22 March 1832
    Age: 82 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Writers from Weimar 31T
    Scientists from Weimar 13T
    Neo-Spinozism 16T
  • 15.

    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    Overview: Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, US also ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one ...
    Date of birth: 21 June 1905
    Date of death: 15 April 1980
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' (152 cm)
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    French scientists with disabilities 12T
    French writers with disabilities 22T
    Blind scholars and academics 125T
  • 16.

    Georges Bataille
    French writer and intellectual
    Georges Bataille
    Overview: Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (10 September 1897 – 9 July 1962) was a French philosopher and intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, consumerism, and history of ...
    Date of birth: 16 September 1897
    Date of death: 9 July 1962
    Age: 64 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century male writers 5,043T
    French surrealist writers 39T
    Deaths from arteriosclerosis 27T
  • 17.

    Socrates
    Classical Greek Athenian philosopher (c. 470 – 399 BC)
    Socrates
    Overview: Socrates (Ancient Greek: Σωκρᾰ́της, Sōkrátēs, c.– 399 BCE) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher ...
    Nationality: Greek
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)
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    Founders of philosophical traditions 43T
    Philosophers of literature 95T
    Philosophers of logic 129T
  • 18.

    Umberto Eco
    Writer and philosopher
    Umberto Eco
    Overview: Umberto Eco OMRI (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, cultural critic, political and social commentator, and novelist. In English, he is best known ...
    Date of birth: 5 January 1932
    Date of death: 19 February 2016
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Nationality: Italian
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
    Partner: Kara Vallow (Married)
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    Writers from Turin 79T
    Deaths from cancer in Lombardy 48T
    21st-century Italian male writers 108T
  • 19.

    James A. Michener
    American writer
    James A. Michener
    Overview: James Albert Michener ( or ; February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997) was an American author. He wrote more than 40 books, most of which were lengthy, fictional family sagas covering the lives of many gen ...
    Date of birth: 3 February 1907
    Date of death: 16 October 1997
    Age: 90 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century American memoirists 453T
    20th-century memoirists 836T
    Philosophers of war 59T
  • 20.

    Roger Fry
    Art critic and painter
    Roger Fry
    Overview: Roger Eliot Fry (16 December 1866 – 9 September 1934) was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an ...
    Date of birth: 14 December 1866
    Date of death: 9 September 1934
    Age: 67 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Artist
    Gender: Male
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    English male painters 2,044T
    Academics of the Slade School of Fine Art 35T
    19th-century English painters 1,373T
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