← Marx⏳ 1818–1883
📕 Who lived at the same time as Marx?
Every thinker below, drawn from the AGORA universe with attested dates, genuinely overlapped with Marx (1818–1883) — they may never have met, but they breathed the air of the same age.
Contemporaries (overlapping lives) · 7
⚖️Mill1806–1873 · 55 years of overlapEnglish Philosopher, Important Representative of Utilitarianism and Liberalism🌑Schopenhauer1788–1860 · 42 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Representative of Voluntarist Pessimism⚡Nietzsche1844–1900 · 39 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Proposer of the "Will to Power" and the Revaluation of Values⛰️Kierkegaard1813–1855 · 37 years of overlapDanish Philosopher, Forerunner of Existentialist Philosophy🔢Bentham1748–1832 · 14 years of overlapEnglish Philosopher, Founder of Utilitarian Ethics🌀Hegel1770–1831 · 13 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Builder of the System of the Dialectic and Absolute Spirit📐Russell1872–1970 · 11 years of overlapEnglish Philosopher and Mathematician, One of the Founders of Analytic Philosophy
Near misses (within 60 years) · 14
🗣️Wittgenstein1889–1951 · born 6 years after Marx diedAustrian-Born Philosopher, Proposer of the "Picture Theory" and "Language Games" in the Philosophy of Language🌲Heidegger1889–1976 · born 6 years after Marx diedGerman Philosopher, Important Representative of Existentialism and Phenomenology⏰Kant1724–1804 · died 14 years before Marx was bornGerman Philosopher, Founder of German Classical Philosophy, Proposer of the "Copernican Revolution"🔬Popper1902–1994 · born 19 years after Marx diedAustrian-Born Philosopher, Proposer of Falsificationist Philosophy of Science🚬Sartre1905–1980 · born 22 years after Marx diedFrench Philosopher, Proposer of the Existentialist "Existence Precedes Essence"🕊️Hannah Arendt1906–1975 · born 23 years after Marx diedGerman-American Philosopher, Proposer of the Theory of the "Banality of Evil"🌷Beauvoir1908–1986 · born 25 years after Marx diedFrench Philosopher, Founder of Existentialist Feminism☀️Camus1913–1960 · born 30 years after Marx diedFrench Philosopher and Writer, Representative Figure of the Philosophy of the Absurd⚖️Rawls1921–2002 · born 38 years after Marx diedAmerican Political Philosopher, Author of A Theory of Justice🖋️Voltaire1694–1778 · died 40 years before Marx was bornFrench Enlightenment Thinker, Spokesman for Rationalism and Religious Tolerance📖Rousseau1712–1778 · died 40 years before Marx was bornFrench Enlightenment Thinker, Important Representative of Social Contract Theory and the "State of Nature"🌊Hume1711–1776 · died 42 years before Marx was bornScottish Philosopher, the Great Synthesizer of Empiricist Skepticism👁️Foucault1926–1984 · born 43 years after Marx diedFrench Philosopher, Representative Figure of the Theory of Power and Knowledge🧩Derrida1930–2004 · born 47 years after Marx diedFrench Philosopher, Founder of Deconstruction