List of philosophical fiction authors
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This is a list of notable philosophical fiction authors and their works, in chronological order according to the author's year of birth.
Author | Years | Notable Works and/or Themes |
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Augustine of Hippo | 354-430 |
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Halevi, Judah | 1075-1141 | |
Abelard, Peter | 1079-1142 |
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Ibn Tufail | 1105-1185 |
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Machiavelli, Niccolò | 1469–1527 | |
More, Thomas | 1478-1535 |
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Voltaire | 1694-1778 | |
Johnson, Samuel | 1709-1784 | |
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | 1712-1778 | |
Diderot, Denis | 1713–1784 | |
Sade, Marquis de | 1740–1814 | Atheism; Nihilism; Libertinism |
Goethe | 1749-1832 | |
Jean Paul | 1763–1825 | |
Chateaubriand, François-René de | 1768–1848 | |
Hogg, James | 1770-1835 | |
Hölderlin, Friedrich | 1770–1843 | |
Stendhal | 1783-1842 | |
Carlyle, Thomas | 1795-1881 | |
Leopardi, Giacomo | 1798-1837 |
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Kierkegaard, Søren | 1813-1855 |
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Turgenev, Ivan | 1818-1883 | |
Dostoevsky, Fyodor | 1821-1881 | Existentialism |
Chernyshevsky, Nikolay | 1828-1889 | Russian nihilism, Utopian socialism |
Tolstoy, Leo | 1828-1910 | |
Pater, Walter | 1839-1894 | |
Nietzsche, Friedrich | 1844-1900 |
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Santayana, George | 1863–1952 | |
Unamuno, Miguel de | 1864–1936 | |
Pirandello, Luigi | 1867–1936 | |
Maxim Gorky | 1868-1936 | |
Proust, Marcel | 1871-1922 | |
Chesterton, G. K. | 1874-1936 | |
Mann, Thomas | 1875-1955 | |
Hesse, Hermann | 1877-1962 | |
Andrei Bely | 1880-1934 | |
Musil, Robert | 1880-1942 | |
Papini, Giovanni | 1881–1956 | |
Kafka, Franz | 1883-1924 | Existential Nihilism |
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand | 1894-1961 | |
Huxley, Aldous | 1894-1963 |
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Jünger, Ernst | 1895–1998 | |
Lewis, C. S. | 1898-1963 | |
Borges, Jorge Luis | 1899-1986 | Philosophical idealism; Eternal recurrence; Eternalism |
Platonov, Andrei | 1899-1951 | |
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de | 1900-1944 | |
Malraux, André | 1901-1976 | |
Orwell, George | 1903-1950 |
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Rebatet, Lucien | 1903–1972 | |
Gombrowicz, Witold | 1904-1969 | |
Skinner, B. F. | 1904-1990 | |
Sartre, Jean-Paul | 1905-1980 | Existentialism
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Rand, Ayn | 1905-1982 | Objectivism |
Beckett, Samuel | 1906-1989 | Absurdism; Quasi-quietism
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Eliade, Mircea | 1907–1986 | |
Beauvoir, Simone de | 1908-1986 | Existentialism; Feminism
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Dazai, Osamu | 1909-1948 | |
Lima, José Lezama | 1910-1976 |
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Camus, Albert | 1913-1960 | Absurdism |
Ellison, Ralph | 1913-1994 |
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Schmidt, Arno | 1914–1979 | |
Percy, Walker | 1916-1990 |
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Burgess, Anthony | 1917-1993 |
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Murdoch, Iris | 1919-1999 | |
Lispector, Clarice | 1920-1977 | |
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich | 1921-1990 | |
Lem, Stanislaw | 1921-2006 | |
Mishima, Yukio | 1925-1970 | |
Markson, David | 1927-2010 |
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Dick, Philip K. | 1928-1982 |
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Pirsig, Robert M. | 1928-2017 | |
Guin, Ursula K. Le | 1929-2018 | Anarchism; Feminism; Socialism; Daoism |
Kundera, Milan | 1929-2023 | |
Wilson, Colin | 1931–2013 | |
Eco, Umberto | 1932-2016 | Semiotics |
Gardner, John | 1933-1982 |
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Berger, Arthur Asa | 1933- |
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Renata Adler | 1938- | |
Atwood, Margaret | 1939- |
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Strauss, Botho | 1944- | |
Bieri, Peter | 1944-2023 | |
Bruckner, Pascal | 1948- | |
Gaarder, Jostein | 1952- | |
Sant, Gus Van | 1952- | |
Shirley, John | 1953- |
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Alexis, André | 1957- |
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Dantec, Maurice G. | 1959-2016 | |
Stephenson, Neal | 1959- |
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Wallace, David Foster | 1962-2008 |
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Yudkowsky, Eliezer | 1979- |
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Rebecca Goldstein | 1983- | Atheism; Feminism |
Dukaj, Jacek | 1997- |
References
[edit]- ^ Samar Attar, The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment: Ibn Tufayl's Influence on Modern Western Thought, Lexington Books, ISBN 0-7391-1989-3.
- ^ Jon Mcginnis, Classical Arabic Philosophy: An Anthology of Sources, p. 284, Hackett Publishing Company, ISBN 0-87220-871-0.