← Russell⏳ 1872–1970
📐 Who lived at the same time as Russell?
Every thinker below, drawn from the AGORA universe with attested dates, genuinely overlapped with Russell (1872–1970) — they may never have met, but they breathed the air of the same age.
Contemporaries (overlapping lives) · 13
🌲Heidegger1889–1976 · 81 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Important Representative of Existentialism and Phenomenology🔬Popper1902–1994 · 68 years of overlapAustrian-Born Philosopher, Proposer of Falsificationist Philosophy of Science🚬Sartre1905–1980 · 65 years of overlapFrench Philosopher, Proposer of the Existentialist "Existence Precedes Essence"🕊️Hannah Arendt1906–1975 · 64 years of overlapGerman-American Philosopher, Proposer of the Theory of the "Banality of Evil"🗣️Wittgenstein1889–1951 · 62 years of overlapAustrian-Born Philosopher, Proposer of the "Picture Theory" and "Language Games" in the Philosophy of Language🌷Beauvoir1908–1986 · 62 years of overlapFrench Philosopher, Founder of Existentialist Feminism⚖️Rawls1921–2002 · 49 years of overlapAmerican Political Philosopher, Author of A Theory of Justice☀️Camus1913–1960 · 47 years of overlapFrench Philosopher and Writer, Representative Figure of the Philosophy of the Absurd👁️Foucault1926–1984 · 44 years of overlapFrench Philosopher, Representative Figure of the Theory of Power and Knowledge🧩Derrida1930–2004 · 40 years of overlapFrench Philosopher, Founder of Deconstruction⚡Nietzsche1844–1900 · 28 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Proposer of the "Will to Power" and the Revaluation of Values📕Marx1818–1883 · 11 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Proposer of Historical Materialism⚖️Mill1806–1873 · 1 years of overlapEnglish Philosopher, Important Representative of Utilitarianism and Liberalism
Near misses (within 60 years) · 4
🌑Schopenhauer1788–1860 · died 12 years before Russell was bornGerman Philosopher, Representative of Voluntarist Pessimism⛰️Kierkegaard1813–1855 · died 17 years before Russell was bornDanish Philosopher, Forerunner of Existentialist Philosophy🔢Bentham1748–1832 · died 40 years before Russell was bornEnglish Philosopher, Founder of Utilitarian Ethics🌀Hegel1770–1831 · died 41 years before Russell was bornGerman Philosopher, Builder of the System of the Dialectic and Absolute Spirit