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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
philosopher, botanist, composer, choreographer, musicologist, literary, autobiographer, music theorist, pedagogue, naturalist, playwright, encyclopédistes, correspondent, political scientist, essayist, music critic
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
philosopher, politician, journalist, economist, literary critic, historian, sociologist, opinion journalist, theatre critic
- University of Turin, Lc G.M.Dettori-Cagliari
Pascal Bruckner (born 1948)
essayist, philosopher
- Lycée Henri-IV, Paris Diderot University
George Steiner (1928-2020)
philosopher, translator, literary critic, journalist, essayist
- University of Oxford, Harvard University
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
linguist, literary historian, historian, translator, mathematician, philosopher, essayist, literary critic, teacher
- University of Edinburgh, Annan Academy
Václav Havel (1936-2011)
playwright, politician, director, poet, film director, human rights activist, dissident, essayist, philosopher, opinion journalist
- Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Theatre, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Jacques Ellul (1912-1994)
theologian, philosopher, sociologist, French resistance fighter
- University of Paris, University of Bordeaux
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (born 1950)
essayist, literary critic, genealogist, historian, journalist, philosopher
- Potomac State College of West Virginia University, Yale University