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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
philosopher, botanist, composer, choreographer, musicologist, literary, autobiographer, music theorist, pedagogue, naturalist, playwright, encyclopƩdistes, correspondent, political scientist, essayist, music critic
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
painter, poet, composer, playwright, essayist, philosopher, artist, lyricist, singer, film director, freedom fighter, Nobel Prize winner, librettist, actor
- University College London, St. Xavier's Collegiate School
Philippe Sollers (1936-2023)
philosopher, publisher, essayist, director, audiobook narrator, literary critic, literary theorist
- ESSEC Business School, LycĆ©e privĆ© Sainte-GeneviĆØve
Nancy Fraser (born 1947)
philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, feminist
- CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Georg LukƔcs (1885-1971)
philosopher, politician, sociologist, literary critic, art historian, philosopher of culture, literary historian, literary scholar
- Humboldt University of Berlin, Eƶtvƶs LorƔnd University
Germaine de Staƫl (1766-1817)
salonniĆØre, diarist, literary critic, politician, correspondent, philosopher
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623-1673)
philosopher, physicist, poet, essayist, lady-in-waiting
Petronius (0026-0066)
politician, military personnel, poet, philosopher