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This week's featured author pages

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831) -- great German philosopher who influenced Karl Marx, and who is famous for his impenetrable writing

Antisthenes (440 - 360) -- a student of Socrates, Antisthenes' philosophy of cynicism exerted an important influence on Diogenes

Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) -- Scottish historian and essayist, who famously argued that history is the biography of great men

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951) -- influential twentieth century analytical philosopher

Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900) -- American novelist, famous for his masterpiece The Red Badge of Courage