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This week's featured author pages

Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823) -- popular English Gothic novelist

William Ockham (1285 - 1347) -- English Franciscan philosopher who argued in favour of nominalism

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.

Ã?tienne Bonnot de Condilac (1715 - 1780) -- French philosopher, who made important investigations in the field of language, and who attempted to found an epistemology suitable for the project of the Enlightenment

Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536) -- leading figure in the Renaissance humanism movement