← Nietzsche⏳ 1844–1900
⚡ Who lived at the same time as Nietzsche?
Every thinker below, drawn from the AGORA universe with attested dates, genuinely overlapped with Nietzsche (1844–1900) — they may never have met, but they breathed the air of the same age.
Contemporaries (overlapping lives) · 7
📕Marx1818–1883 · 39 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Proposer of Historical Materialism⚖️Mill1806–1873 · 29 years of overlapEnglish Philosopher, Important Representative of Utilitarianism and Liberalism📐Russell1872–1970 · 28 years of overlapEnglish Philosopher and Mathematician, One of the Founders of Analytic Philosophy🌑Schopenhauer1788–1860 · 16 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Representative of Voluntarist Pessimism⛰️Kierkegaard1813–1855 · 11 years of overlapDanish Philosopher, Forerunner of Existentialist Philosophy🗣️Wittgenstein1889–1951 · 11 years of overlapAustrian-Born Philosopher, Proposer of the "Picture Theory" and "Language Games" in the Philosophy of Language🌲Heidegger1889–1976 · 11 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Important Representative of Existentialism and Phenomenology
Near misses (within 60 years) · 11
🔬Popper1902–1994 · born 2 years after Nietzsche diedAustrian-Born Philosopher, Proposer of Falsificationist Philosophy of Science🚬Sartre1905–1980 · born 5 years after Nietzsche diedFrench Philosopher, Proposer of the Existentialist "Existence Precedes Essence"🕊️Hannah Arendt1906–1975 · born 6 years after Nietzsche diedGerman-American Philosopher, Proposer of the Theory of the "Banality of Evil"🌷Beauvoir1908–1986 · born 8 years after Nietzsche diedFrench Philosopher, Founder of Existentialist Feminism🔢Bentham1748–1832 · died 12 years before Nietzsche was bornEnglish Philosopher, Founder of Utilitarian Ethics🌀Hegel1770–1831 · died 13 years before Nietzsche was bornGerman Philosopher, Builder of the System of the Dialectic and Absolute Spirit☀️Camus1913–1960 · born 13 years after Nietzsche diedFrench Philosopher and Writer, Representative Figure of the Philosophy of the Absurd⚖️Rawls1921–2002 · born 21 years after Nietzsche diedAmerican Political Philosopher, Author of A Theory of Justice👁️Foucault1926–1984 · born 26 years after Nietzsche diedFrench Philosopher, Representative Figure of the Theory of Power and Knowledge🧩Derrida1930–2004 · born 30 years after Nietzsche diedFrench Philosopher, Founder of Deconstruction⏰Kant1724–1804 · died 40 years before Nietzsche was bornGerman Philosopher, Founder of German Classical Philosophy, Proposer of the "Copernican Revolution"