Michel Foucault (1926 – 1984) is considered by many the greatest thinker of the 20th century. His most famous work focuses on two things: sexuality and its construction (his concern with this issue was always at hand; he was openly, albeit quietly, homosexual ), which he discusses in three vo...

In his process of drawing the distinction between a thing and its meaning, Friedrich Nietzsche approaches the long established concept of morality, among numerous other concepts, strictly with initial doubt. In doing so, he scrutinizes and, eventually, discredits them. In order to do that, he begins...

Traditionally, existentialism has been viewed as mostly twentieth-centuryphilosophical movement, and transcendentalism a nineteenth-century one. Not onlyis Henry David Thoreau's Walden Pond an existentialist work, but by examining thesimilarities and interrelations between existentialist thought and...