List of French People - Philosophers

Philosophers

Main article: List of French philosophers
  • Pierre Abélard
  • Louis Althusser
  • Raymond Aron, sociologist & philosopher
  • Jean le Rond d'Alembert
  • Gaston Bachelard
  • Georges Bataille
  • Roland Barthes
  • Jean Baudrillard, philosopher and sociologist
  • Pierre Bourdieu, sociologist
  • Julien Benda
  • Henri Bergson
  • Émile Boutroux
  • Michel de Certeau
  • André Comte-Sponville
  • Jean de Crèvecœur
  • Guy Debord
  • Gilles Deleuze
  • Jacques Derrida
  • René Descartes, scientist and philosopher
  • Denis Diderot, Enlightenment author and deist philosopher
  • Michel Foucault
  • Félix Guattari
  • Vladimir Jankélévitch
  • Étienne de La Boétie, philosopher and politician
  • Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
  • Henri Lefèbvre
  • Marcel Légaut, Christian philosopher
  • Jean de Léry, corsaire and ethnologist, anti-racism activist
  • Emmanuel Lévinas
  • Jean-François Lyotard
  • Nicolas Malebranche
  • Gabriel Marcel, philosopher
  • Maurice Merleau-Ponty, phenomenologist
  • Michel de Montaigne, philosopher essayist
  • Montesquieu, political philosopher
  • Edgar Morin
  • Emmanuel Mounier, philosopher
  • Jean-Luc Nancy, philosopher
  • Blaise Pascal, scientist, Christian philosopher and author
  • Jean-François Revel
  • Paul Ricœur
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist philosopher
  • Michel Serres
  • François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), Enlightenment author, deist/agnostic philosopher
  • Éric Weil, philosopher
  • Simone Weil

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