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This week's featured author pagesJohn Scotus Eriugena (810 - 877) -- Irish philosopher in the Middle Ages
Bayard Taylor (1828 - 1898) -- U.S. statesman and writer
Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956) -- German poet and playwright whose theories of a relationship of alienation between audience and theatre had a marked inpact on the development of drama.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) -- philosopher in the French Revolution who made important contributions to the field of political philosophy
Sextus Empiricus (200 - 200) -- sceptic philosopher, who lived during the third century BC