Top 20 Philosopher celebrities in the world
Here is the latest list of the world's top 20 Philosopher celebrities [Updated January 20, 2022].
Baruch Spinoza was born
on November 24, 1632
in Amsterdam, Dutch Republic, Dutch.
Murray Rothbard was born
on March 2, 1926
in Bronx, New York, United States, United States.
Soren Kierkegaard was born
on May 5, 1813
in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Frantz Fanon was born
on July 20, 1925
in France.
His first book was Black Skin, White Masks from 1952, which explored colonial subjugation of black people and its psychological effects.
William Desmond Taylor was born
on April 26, 1872
in Carlow, United States.
Adam Smith was born
on June 16, 1723
in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, Wales.
Maimonides was born
on April 6, 1135
in Córdoba, Not Known.
Walter Benjamin was born
on July 15, 1892
in Berlin, German Empire, Germany.
Michel de Montaigne was born
on February 28, 1533
in Château de Montaigne, France.
Peter Kropotkin was born
on December 9, 1842
in Moscow, Russian Empire, Russia.
Leo Strauss was born
on September 20, 1899
in Kirchhain, Germany.
He received his U.S. citizenship in the mid-1940s and secured a political science professorship at the University of Chicago.
Karl Marx was born
on May 5, 1818
in Trier, Germany.
His work with
Friedrich Engels produced a new philosophy of government and economics that would influence all of Russia and lead to numerous revolts.
Joseph Priestley was born
on March 13, 1733
in England.
He published The History and Present State of Electricity in 1767.
Jeremy Bentham was born
on February 15, 1748
in England.
He played a prominent role in the study of Anglo-American philosophy of law.
Jean-Paul Sartre was born
on June 21, 1905
in Paris, France.
He declined the offer of a Noble Peace Prize, while his rival
Albert Camus did not. He believed that writers should not become institutions.
Isaiah Berlin was born
on June 6, 1909
in England.
His most popular essay was Two Concepts of Liberty from 1958.
Gilles Deleuze was born
on January 18, 1925
in France.
Most popular for his works with Felix Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus from 1972 and A Thousand Plateaus from 1980.
His magnum opus was Difference and Repetition from 1968.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born
on August 27, 1770
in Germany.
His view of history was adapted by
Karl Marx as the basis for his new Communist political system.
Friedrich Nietzsche was born
on October 15, 1844
in Rocken, Germany.
His work on the will to power and aesthetics have inspired artists and thinkers ever since his writings were first published.
Friedrich Engels was born
on November 28, 1820
in Wuppertal, Germany.
He greatly influenced the founder of the Communist Party in Russia,
Vladimir Lenin.
