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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
poet, satirist, philosopher, human rights activist, pamphleteer, Anglican priest, essayist, opinion journalist, public figure, priest
- Trinity College Dublin, University of Oxford
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
philosopher, translator, jurist, essayist, autobiographer, politician, poet lawyer, French moralist
- College of Guienne, University of Toulouse
Paul Goodman (1911-1972)
poet, psychotherapist, sociologist, literary critic, LGBTQ rights activist, political scientist, philosopher
- University of Chicago, City College of New York
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)
philosopher, literary critic
- École Normale Supérieure, Harvard University
Karl Kautsky (1854-1938)
politician, philosopher, economist, journalist
- University of Vienna, Akademisches Gymnasium
Norberto Bobbio (1909-2004)
philosopher, jurist, historian, politician, journalist, political scientist, historian of ideas
- University of Turin, Liceo Classico Massimo D'Azeglio
Northrop Frye (1912-1991)
philosopher, pedagogue, cleric, poet, literary critic
- University of Toronto, University of Oxford
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976)
historian, medievalist, military historian, philosopher
- University of Oxford, Hebrew University of Jerusalem