Authors

Louis Trolle Hjelmslev (1899 – 1965) was a Danish linguist whose ideas formed the basis of the Copenhagen School of linguistics. Hjelmslev was born into an academic family of linguists, and he studied comparative linguistics in Copenhagen, Prague and Paris. Hjelmslev...

Jacques Lacan (1901 - 1981) was a contemporary French psychoanalyst and theorist who had a significant influence on today's semiotics. His contribution is often described as a broad reinterpretation of psychoanalysis from a structural perspective. More precisely, his...

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908 – 2009) was a French social anthropologist who pioneered the analysis of cultural systems in terms of the structural relationships among their elements. Structuralism has had a significant impact on social science, philosophy, comparative...

Martin Krampen (1928 – 2015) was a German professor who specialized in the study of semiotics. He taught at the University of Göttingen. Krampen was born on March 9, 1928 in Siegen, Germany. He was raised in Wuppertal, a city in the Ruhr Valley. Krampen is the son of...

Harald Weinrich (1927 – 2022) was a German essayist, poet, linguist, and literary scholar. He is a professor emeritus of Romance Literature at the College de France and has also held chairs and guest professorships at universities in Germany, Italy, and the United...

Walker Percy (1916 – 1990) was a prolific American author whose work focused on philosophy and semiotics. Percy is noted for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans; his first, “The Moviegoer”, won the National Book Award for Fiction. Percy, an orphaned...

Avram Noam Chomsky, born 1928, is a renowned linguist who has made important contributions to the field over the course of his career. He is known for his work on the cognitive abilities of language, and his work has had a significant impact on the field of...

Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904 – 1990) was a celebrated American psychologist who heavily influenced the field of behaviorism. His work focused on the study of human behavior and how it is influenced by environmental stimuli. This approach has proven to be a powerful...

German mathematician Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848 – 1925) was a prominent figure in the field of logic and philosophy, who worked at the University of Jena. Frege significantly reconceived the discipline of logic by constructing a formal system that, in...

Paul Ricoeur (1913 – 2005) is a renowned French philosopher of the 20th century whose work has been widely studied and commented on around the world. He was an accomplished academic and public speaker, and his prominence as a social and political commentator led to a...