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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Arthur Schopenhauer
Jean-Paul Sartre
King Lear
Marble bust of Aristotle with a beard and draped robe, showing detailed facial features and wavy hair, set against a dark background.
Michelangelo: David
Portrait of Leo Tolstoy with a long white beard, wearing a dark shirt and looking slightly to the side.
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Profile portrait of Immanuel Kant facing right, framed by a green Ouroboros serpent forming an oval, with a geometric symbol below the frame.
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher
David Hume
David Hume
Scottish philosopher
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Johann Gottfried von Herder
Johann Gottfried von Herder
German philosopher
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher
Santayana
George Santayana
Spanish-American philosopher
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Jacques Rancière
French philosopher
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Heinrich Wölfflin
Swiss historian
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Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
German philosopher and music critic
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Walter Benjamin
German literary critic
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Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
German philosopher and educator
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T.E. Hulme
English critic and poet
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Susanne K. Langer
American philosopher and educator
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Friedrich Theodor von Vischer
German literary critic
The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.
William Hogarth
English artist
Tower of the Rising Clouds, colour on silk by Mi Fu; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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Bernard Bosanquet
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Motherwell, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1959
Robert Motherwell
American artist