This Day in Philosophy
This Day in Philosophy — 10 August: the birth of Jean-François Lyotard
The French philosopher who defined 'the postmodern condition' and announced the end of grand narratives was born on 10 August 1924.
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The French philosopher who defined 'the postmodern condition' and announced the end of grand narratives was born on 10 August 1924.
Darwin's loudest voice in Germany, the man who coined the word 'ecology' and turned monism into a world-view, Ernst Haeckel died at Jena on 9 August 1919.
Antoine Arnauld, author of the Port-Royal logic, died on 8 August 1694. On the same day Francis Hutcheson, founder of the theory of the moral sense, was born.
Rabindranath Tagore died in Calcutta on 7 August 1941. On the same day in 1906, Nelson Goodman, who rebuilt the philosophy of induction and of art, was born.
Theodor W. Adorno, the best-known figure of the Frankfurt School, died in Switzerland on 6 August 1969. Nicolas Malebranche was born on the same date in 1638.
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Friedrich Engels died in London on 5 August 1895. Marx's close collaborator was decisive in the spread of historical materialism.