Linguistics

Derrida and Deconstruction

Structuralism (Linguistics)

Ferdinand de Saussure

Noam Chomsky

Leonard Bloomfield

Roman Jakobson 

Edward Sapir 

Other

Women's Perspective in Literature

Black and African American Perspectives

Post-colonialism

Structuralism (Narrative)

"New" Criticism

Western Philosophy

Plato and Socrates

(470-347 b.c.e.)

Aristotle (384-322 b.c.e)

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

Emil Cioran (1911-1995)

Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Eastern Philosophy

A Place to Start

Confucius (551-479 BCE)

Laozi (6th Century BCE; Taoism)

Zhuangzi (369-286 BCE; Taoism)

Siddhartha Gautama (563-483 BCE; Buddha)

Nagarjuna (150-250CE Buddhism)

Bodhidharma (5-6 Century CE Budddhism)

Ibn Sina (980-1037; Persian)

Rumi (1207-1273; Persian; Sufi)

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207-1273; Persian; Islam)

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941; Indian)

Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902; Indian)

D.T. Suzuki (1870-1966; Japanese, Buddhism)

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926-2022; Vietnamese, Buddhism)

Krishnamurti (1895-1986; Indian)

Philosophy of Literary Figures

Albert Camus

Feydor Dostoevsky

Franz Kafka

George Orwell

James Joyce

Ralph Waldo Emerson