← Beauvoir⏳ 1908–1986
🌷 Who lived at the same time as Beauvoir?
Every thinker below, drawn from the AGORA universe with attested dates, genuinely overlapped with Beauvoir (1908–1986) — they may never have met, but they breathed the air of the same age.
Contemporaries (overlapping lives) · 10
🔬Popper1902–1994 · 78 years of overlapAustrian-Born Philosopher, Proposer of Falsificationist Philosophy of Science🚬Sartre1905–1980 · 72 years of overlapFrench Philosopher, Proposer of the Existentialist "Existence Precedes Essence"🌲Heidegger1889–1976 · 68 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Important Representative of Existentialism and Phenomenology🕊️Hannah Arendt1906–1975 · 67 years of overlapGerman-American Philosopher, Proposer of the Theory of the "Banality of Evil"⚖️Rawls1921–2002 · 65 years of overlapAmerican Political Philosopher, Author of A Theory of Justice📐Russell1872–1970 · 62 years of overlapEnglish Philosopher and Mathematician, One of the Founders of Analytic Philosophy👁️Foucault1926–1984 · 58 years of overlapFrench Philosopher, Representative Figure of the Theory of Power and Knowledge🧩Derrida1930–2004 · 56 years of overlapFrench Philosopher, Founder of Deconstruction☀️Camus1913–1960 · 47 years of overlapFrench Philosopher and Writer, Representative Figure of the Philosophy of the Absurd🗣️Wittgenstein1889–1951 · 43 years of overlapAustrian-Born Philosopher, Proposer of the "Picture Theory" and "Language Games" in the Philosophy of Language
Near misses (within 60 years) · 5
⚡Nietzsche1844–1900 · died 8 years before Beauvoir was bornGerman Philosopher, Proposer of the "Will to Power" and the Revaluation of Values📕Marx1818–1883 · died 25 years before Beauvoir was bornGerman Philosopher, Proposer of Historical Materialism⚖️Mill1806–1873 · died 35 years before Beauvoir was bornEnglish Philosopher, Important Representative of Utilitarianism and Liberalism🌑Schopenhauer1788–1860 · died 48 years before Beauvoir was bornGerman Philosopher, Representative of Voluntarist Pessimism⛰️Kierkegaard1813–1855 · died 53 years before Beauvoir was bornDanish Philosopher, Forerunner of Existentialist Philosophy