← Wittgenstein⏳ 1889–1951
🗣️ Who lived at the same time as Wittgenstein?
Every thinker below, drawn from the AGORA universe with attested dates, genuinely overlapped with Wittgenstein (1889–1951) — they may never have met, but they breathed the air of the same age.
Contemporaries (overlapping lives) · 11
📐Russell1872–1970 · 62 years of overlapEnglish Philosopher and Mathematician, One of the Founders of Analytic Philosophy🌲Heidegger1889–1976 · 62 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Important Representative of Existentialism and Phenomenology🔬Popper1902–1994 · 49 years of overlapAustrian-Born Philosopher, Proposer of Falsificationist Philosophy of Science🚬Sartre1905–1980 · 46 years of overlapFrench Philosopher, Proposer of the Existentialist "Existence Precedes Essence"🕊️Hannah Arendt1906–1975 · 45 years of overlapGerman-American Philosopher, Proposer of the Theory of the "Banality of Evil"🌷Beauvoir1908–1986 · 43 years of overlapFrench Philosopher, Founder of Existentialist Feminism☀️Camus1913–1960 · 38 years of overlapFrench Philosopher and Writer, Representative Figure of the Philosophy of the Absurd⚖️Rawls1921–2002 · 30 years of overlapAmerican Political Philosopher, Author of A Theory of Justice👁️Foucault1926–1984 · 25 years of overlapFrench Philosopher, Representative Figure of the Theory of Power and Knowledge🧩Derrida1930–2004 · 21 years of overlapFrench Philosopher, Founder of Deconstruction⚡Nietzsche1844–1900 · 11 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Proposer of the "Will to Power" and the Revaluation of Values
Near misses (within 60 years) · 6
📕Marx1818–1883 · died 6 years before Wittgenstein was bornGerman Philosopher, Proposer of Historical Materialism⚖️Mill1806–1873 · died 16 years before Wittgenstein was bornEnglish Philosopher, Important Representative of Utilitarianism and Liberalism🌑Schopenhauer1788–1860 · died 29 years before Wittgenstein was bornGerman Philosopher, Representative of Voluntarist Pessimism⛰️Kierkegaard1813–1855 · died 34 years before Wittgenstein was bornDanish Philosopher, Forerunner of Existentialist Philosophy🔢Bentham1748–1832 · died 57 years before Wittgenstein was bornEnglish Philosopher, Founder of Utilitarian Ethics🌀Hegel1770–1831 · died 58 years before Wittgenstein was bornGerman Philosopher, Builder of the System of the Dialectic and Absolute Spirit