beardofdoom Said:
i'm a philosophy graduate student, so i deal with nothing but geniuses/great thinkers. current favorites (in no particular order):
walter benjamin - primarily his work as it relates to history, that is a historical materialism rooted in a sort of non-religious theological conception of time. also, his writings on modernity and baudelaire.
henri bergson - he won a nobel prize. conceived time as a function of memory and duration. memory as active function (elan vital) that powers time.
guy debord - head of the situationist internationale. wrote society of the spectacle. capitalism as enslavement through replacing presence with representation. the commodification of everything including time.
these guys form the basis of dissertation research right now.
all-time all star list:
william blake
nietzsche
georges bataille
gilles deleuze
friederich schiller
fwj schelling
it'd take too long to explain here.
