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This week's featured author pages

Wilhelm Dilthey (1833 - 1911) -- German philosopher, whose contributions include the development of hermeneutics and broadening the application of Kant's philosophy

Cesare Beccaria (1738 - 1794) -- Italian jurist who, preempting Bentham, encouraged the improvement of prison systems in Europe

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) -- German philosopher and poet whose wide-ranging theories of morality and human behaviour have been some of the most influential of the past centuries

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804 - 1872) -- a 'Left Hegelian' commentator and critic on Hegel

Chinua Achebe (1930 - 0) -- highly regarded African writer in English