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Noam Chomsky (born 1928)
philosopher, linguist, psychologist, anthropologist, human rights activist, educator, media critic, opinion journalist, computer scientist, historian, philologist
- Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Georges Didi-Huberman (born 1953)
philosopher, art historian, art theorist
- University of Lyon, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
Bruno Bettelheim (1903-1990)
psychologist, philosopher, psychoanalyst
- University of Vienna
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
economist, journalist, historian, philosopher, sociologist, revolutionary, poet, politician, social scientist, socialist
- University of Bonn, University of Jena
Petrarch (1304-1374)
philosopher, poet, translator, lyricist, mountaineer, autobiographer, philologist, humanist, Catholic cleric
- University of Montpellier, University of Bologna
Amartya Sen (born 1933)
economist, philosopher, sociologist, Nobel Prize winner
- University of Calcutta, University of Cambridge
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)
poet, philosopher, historian, librarian, playwright, translator, journalist, physician, military physician, aesthetician
- Karlsschule Stuttgart, University of Jena
Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
economist, social scientist, political theorist, philosopher, revolutionary, sociologist, women's rights activist, journalist, entrepreneur, historian
- University of Berlin