← Hannah Arendt⏳ 1906–1975
🕊️ Who lived at the same time as Hannah Arendt?
Every thinker below, drawn from the AGORA universe with attested dates, genuinely overlapped with Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) — they may never have met, but they breathed the air of the same age.
Contemporaries (overlapping lives) · 10
🌲Heidegger1889–1976 · 69 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Important Representative of Existentialism and Phenomenology🔬Popper1902–1994 · 69 years of overlapAustrian-Born Philosopher, Proposer of Falsificationist Philosophy of Science🚬Sartre1905–1980 · 69 years of overlapFrench Philosopher, Proposer of the Existentialist "Existence Precedes Essence"🌷Beauvoir1908–1986 · 67 years of overlapFrench Philosopher, Founder of Existentialist Feminism📐Russell1872–1970 · 64 years of overlapEnglish Philosopher and Mathematician, One of the Founders of Analytic Philosophy⚖️Rawls1921–2002 · 54 years of overlapAmerican Political Philosopher, Author of A Theory of Justice👁️Foucault1926–1984 · 49 years of overlapFrench Philosopher, Representative Figure of the Theory of Power and Knowledge☀️Camus1913–1960 · 47 years of overlapFrench Philosopher and Writer, Representative Figure of the Philosophy of the Absurd🗣️Wittgenstein1889–1951 · 45 years of overlapAustrian-Born Philosopher, Proposer of the "Picture Theory" and "Language Games" in the Philosophy of Language🧩Derrida1930–2004 · 45 years of overlapFrench Philosopher, Founder of Deconstruction
Near misses (within 60 years) · 5
⚡Nietzsche1844–1900 · died 6 years before Hannah Arendt was bornGerman Philosopher, Proposer of the "Will to Power" and the Revaluation of Values📕Marx1818–1883 · died 23 years before Hannah Arendt was bornGerman Philosopher, Proposer of Historical Materialism⚖️Mill1806–1873 · died 33 years before Hannah Arendt was bornEnglish Philosopher, Important Representative of Utilitarianism and Liberalism🌑Schopenhauer1788–1860 · died 46 years before Hannah Arendt was bornGerman Philosopher, Representative of Voluntarist Pessimism⛰️Kierkegaard1813–1855 · died 51 years before Hannah Arendt was bornDanish Philosopher, Forerunner of Existentialist Philosophy