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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
theatre manager, botanist, politician, painter, philosopher, theologian, jurist, art critic, music critic, librarian, poet, physicist, literary, playwright, autobiographer, diplomat, statesperson, polymath, aphorist, diarist, mineralogist, zoologist, art theorist, lawyer, composer, librettist, visual artist, art historian
- Leipzig University, University of Strasbourg
Charles Taylor (born 1931)
philosopher, sociologist, political scientist
- McGill University, University of Oxford
Paul Goodman (1911-1972)
poet, psychotherapist, sociologist, literary critic, LGBTQ rights activist, political scientist, philosopher
- University of Chicago, City College of New York
Michio Kaku (born 1947)
theoretical physicist, science communicator, futurist, radio personality, physicist, television personality
- Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley
Benjamin Barber (1939-2017)
political scientist
- London School of Economics and Political Science, Harvard University
Michael Parenti (born 1933)
political scientist, historian, journalist
- Brown University, City College of New York
Norberto Bobbio (1909-2004)
philosopher, jurist, historian, politician, journalist, political scientist, historian of ideas
- University of Turin, Liceo Classico Massimo D'Azeglio
Cass Sunstein (born 1954)
jurist, political scientist, economist, lawyer, philosopher
- Harvard Law School, Harvard College