Precursory Thinkers

Aristotle
Giovanni Pontano
Henri Bergson
Giovanni Boccaccio
Jacob Boehme
Franz Brentano
Leonardo Bruni
Wilhelm Dilthey
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Meister Eckhart
John of the Cross
Theresa of Avila
G. W. F. Hegel
Johann Gottfried von Herder
Friedrich Holderlin
William James
Immanuel Kant
Soren Kierkegaard
Karl Marx
Alexius Meinong
Herman Melville
Friedrich Nietzsche
Blaise Pascal
Plato
Plotinus
Josiah Royce
Coluccio Salutati
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Arthur Schopenhauer
Giambattista Vico

Thinkers in Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Existential-Phenomenology

Christopher Aanstoos
Nicola Abbagnano
David B. Allison
Hannah Arendt
Mike Arons
Carlos Astrada
Gaston Bachelard
Suzanne Bachelard
Antonio Banfi
Hazel Barnes
Karl Barth
Anthony Barton
Ernest Becker
Oskar Becker
Samuel Beckett
Reiner Beerling
Nicholas Berdyaev
Gaston Berger
Robert Bernasconi
Ludwig Binswanger
C. George Boeree
Otto Friedrich Bollnow
Medard Boss
Germaine Bree
Marc Briod
Roger Brooke
Martin Buber
James Bugental
Rudolf Bultmann
Dan Burston
F. J. J. Buytendijk
Thomas Dorion Cairns
Albert Camus
Euryalo Cannabrava
John Caputo
Edward S. Casey
Peter Caws
Theodor Celms
Rodderick M. Chisolm
Scott Churchill
Emil M. Cioran
Paul Colaizzi
Hedwig Conrad-Martius
Fred R. Dallmayr
Francois Dastur
Simone de Beauvoir
Andreas de Koning
Alphonse de Waelhens
Johan Degenaar
Jim Dillon
Martin Dillon
Eric Dodson
Hubert L. Dreyfus
Mikel Dufrenne
Frank Edler
Mircea Eliade
Lester Embree
Fred Evans
Marvin Farber
Vicente Fatone
Eugen Fink
Constance T. Fischer
William Fischer
Viktor Frankl
Manfred Frings
Maurice Friedman
Andrew R. Fuller
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Moritz Geiger
Eugene T. Gendlin
Amedeo Giorgi
Friedrich Gogarten
Kurt Goldstein
Lewis Gordon
Ernesto Grassi
Thomas Greening
Marjorie Grene
James & Melissa Griffith
Charles Guignon
Aron Gurwitsch
Lawrence J. Habab
Steen Halling
Hasan Hanafi
Nicolai Hartmann
Martin Heidegger
Jeanne Hersch
Herman Hesse
Keith Hoeller
Edmund Husserl
Don Ihde
Roman Ingarden
Bernd Jager
Roman Jakobson
Dominique Janicaud
Vladimir Jankelevitch
Karl Jaspers
Hans Jonas
Sidney Jourard
Franz Kafka
Ernest Keen
Nishida Kitaro
Richard Knowles
Kurt Koffka
Wolfgang Kohler
Alexandre Kojeve
Alexandre Koyre
David Farrell Krell
Angele Kremer-Marietti
Stanley Krippner
Robert Kugelmann
Shuzo Kuki
George Kunz
R. D. Laing
Ludwig Landgrebe
Jan Martinus Langeveld
Drew Leder
Claude Lefort
David Michael Levin
Emmanuel Levinas
Kurt Lewin
Alphonso Lingis
Wilfried Lippitz
Nikolai Onufrievich Lossky
Karl Lowith
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Salvatore Maddi
Gary Brent Madison
Bernd Magnus
Kareen Malone
Andre Malraux
Maurice Mandelbaum
Gabriel Marcel
Jean-Luc Marion
Jacques Maritain
Werner Marx
Abraham H. Maslow
Rollo May
Glen A. Mazis
John McCumber
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Adolfo Menendez Y Samara
Jitendra Nath Mohanty
Bertha Mook
Clark Moustakas
Jose Romano Munoz
Iris Murdoch
Maurice Natanson
Victor Ivanovich Nesmelov
Kitaro Nishida
Keiji Nishitani
Jose Ortega y Gassett
Lisa Osbech
Martin Packer
Jeanne Parain-Vial
Jan Patocka
Adriaan Theodor Peperzak
Fritz Perls
Alexander Pfander
Frasier Pierson
Michael Polanyi
Donald Polkinghorne
Adolph Reinach
Paul Richer
Paul Ricoeur
Rainer Maria Rilke
Carl Rogers
Natalie Rogers
Robert Romanyshyn
Franz Rosenzweig
Vasily Rozanov
John Sallis
Jean-Paul Sartre
Louis A. Sass
Max Scheler
Kirk Schneider
Calvin O. Schrag
Reiner Schurmann
Alfred Schutz
Charles E. Scott
Thomas M. Seebohn
Ilene Serlin
Thomas Sheehan
Leon Shestov
Gustav Shpet
Hugh J. Silverman
Eva Simms
Michael Sipiora
Vladimir Solovev
Herbert Spiegelberg
Ernesto Spinelli
Joan Stambaugh
Edith Stein
Stephen Strasser
Erwin Straus
Elisabeth Stroker
Wilhelm Szilasi
Hasime Tanabe
Charles Taylor
Michael Theunissen
Paul Tillich
Anna Teresa Tymieniecka
Miguel de Unamuno
Ronald Valle
J. H. van den Berg
Adrian Van Kaam
Max Van Manen
Gianni Vattimo
Jose Sanchez Villasenor
Lawrence Vogel
Rolf von Eckartsberg
Jerome Wakefield
Russ Walsh
Mary Watkins
Gail Weiss
Max Wertheimer
Fred Wertz
Merold Westphal
Robert Woolfolk
Edith Wyschogrod
Irvin Yalom
Richard Zaner
Peter Wessel Zapffe
Ewa Ponowska Zocovek
Xavier Zubiri

Other Related Thinkers
(In depth psychology, critical theory, structuralism, post-structuralism, linguistics, feminist theory, etc.)

Theodor Adorno
Giorgio Agamben
Louis Althusser
Lou Andreas-Salome
Mikhail Bakhtin
Suzanne Barnard
Roland Barthes
Georges Bataille
Jean Baudrillard
Kenneth Baynes
Walter Benjamin
Hakim Bey
Maurice Blanchot
Bertold Brecht
Norman O. Brown
Judith Butler
Ernst Cassirer
Noam Chomsky
Helene Cixious
Drucilla Cornell
Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari
Paul De Man
Ferdinand de Saussure
Jacques Derrida
Umberto Eco
Bruce Fink
Michel Foucault
Sigmund Freud
Erich Fromm
Kenneth Gergen
Erving Goffman
Algirdas Greimas
Elizabeth Grosz
Jurgen Habermas
Michael A. K. Halliday
James Hillman
bell hooks
Max Horkheimer
Dick Howard
Jean Hyppolite
Luce Irigaray
Fredric Jameson
Carl Jung
Julia Kristeva
Jacques Lacan
Claude Levi-Strauss
George Lukacs
Herbert Marcuse
Brian Massumi
Christian Metz
Jean-Luc Nancy
Kelly Oliver
Jean Piaget
Alain Renaut
Richard Rorty
Gillain Rose
Jacqueline Rose
Ed Sampson
Lorenzo Simpson
Lev Vygotsky
Bernard Waldenfels
Albrecht Wellmer
Cornel West
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Iris Young
Slovaj Zizek

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