This post is a list of influential postmodern philosophers. There are 6 philosophers listed below alphabetically by last name. License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)
"[Baudrillard] is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as well as his formulation of concepts such as simulation and hyperreality. He wrote about diverse subjects including consumerism, gender relations, economics, social history, art, Western foreign policy and popular culture." (Wikipedia: Jean Baudrillard, 8.4.21 UTC 11:59)
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995)
"An important part of Deleuze's oeuvre is devoted to the reading of other philosophers: the Stoics, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche and Bergson with particular influence derived from Spinoza... [Deleuze's] work has influenced a variety of disciplines across the humanities including philosophy, art and literary theory..." (Wikipedia: Gilles Deluze, 8.2.21 UTC 09:17)
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)
"[Baudrillard] is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as well as his formulation of concepts such as simulation and hyperreality. He wrote about diverse subjects including consumerism, gender relations, economics, social history, art, Western foreign policy and popular culture." (Wikipedia: Jean Baudrillard, 8.4.21 UTC 11:59)
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995)
"An important part of Deleuze's oeuvre is devoted to the reading of other philosophers: the Stoics, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche and Bergson with particular influence derived from Spinoza... [Deleuze's] work has influenced a variety of disciplines across the humanities including philosophy, art and literary theory..." (Wikipedia: Gilles Deluze, 8.2.21 UTC 09:17)
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)
"Derrida... is best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction, which he discussed in numerous texts, and developed in the context of phenomenology... Some critics consider Speech and Phenomena (1967) to be his most important work. Others cite: Of Grammatology (1967), Writing and Difference (1967) and Margins of Philosophy (1972)." (Wikipedia: Jacques Derrida, 8.17.21 UTC 01:01)
Paul Feyerabend (1924-1994)
"Feyerabend became famous for his rejection of the existence of universal methodological rules. He was an influential figure in the sociology of scientific knowledge... He objected to any single prescriptive scientific method on the grounds that any such method would limit the activities of scientists, and hence restrict scientific progress." (Wikipedia: Paul Feyerabend, 6.3.21 UTC 22:54)
Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
"Foucault's theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and though they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions... [Foucault] published his first major book The History of Madness (1961)... Foucault later published Discipline and Punish (1975) and The History of Sexuality (1976)..." (Wikipedia: Michel Foucault, 7.16.21 UTC 22:54)
Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924-1998)
"[Lyotard's] interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as epistemology and communication, the human body, modern art and postmodern art, literature and critical theory, music, film, time and memory, space, the city and landscape, the sublime, and the relation between aesthetics and politics." (Wikipedia: Jean-Francois Lyotard, 7.1.21 UTC 20:05)
