Partial contents: Gorgias of Leontini (ca. 483-376 B.C.E.) -- Plato (ca. 427-ca. 347 B.C.E.) -- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E) -- Horace (65-8 B.C.E.) -- Longinus (first century C.E.) -- Augustine of Hippo (354-430) -- Moses Maimonides (1135-1204) -- Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) -- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) -- Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) -- Christine de Pizan (ca. 1365-ca.1429) -- Joachim du Bellay (ca.1522-1560) -- Giacopo Mazzoni (1548-1598) -- Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) -- Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) -- Aphra Behn (1640-1689) -- Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) -- David Hume (1711-1776) -- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) -- Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) -- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) -- Germaine Necker de Staël -- Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) -- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) -- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) -- Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) -- Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) -- Matthew Arnold ((1822-1888) -- Walter Pater (1839-1894) -- Henry James (1843-1916) -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) -- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) -- Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) -- W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) -- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) -- György Lukács (1885-1971) -- T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) -- John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) -- Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) -- Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) -- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) -- Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) -- Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) -- Mikhail M. Bakhtin (1895-1975) -- Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) and Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) -- F.R. Leavis (1895-1978) -- Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) -- Friedrich A. Hayek (1899-1992) -- Leo Strauss (1899-1973) -- Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) -- Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) -- Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) -- Cleanth Brooks (1906-1994) -- William K. Wimsatt Jr. (1907-1975) -- Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) -- Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) -- J.L. Austin (1911-1960) -- Northrop Frye (1912-1991) -- Roland Barthes (1915-1980) -- Louis Althusser (1918-1990) -- Paul de Man (1919-1983) -- C.D. Narasimhaiah (1921-2005) -- Raymond Williams (1921-1988) -- Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) -- Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Félix Guattari (1930-1992) -- Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) -- Michel Foucault (1926-1984) -- Wolfgang Iser (1926-2007) -- Hayden White (1928-2018) -- Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) -- Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929) -- Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) -- Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) -- Adūnīs (b. ca. 1930) -- Harold Bloom (b. 1930) -- Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) -- Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) -- Li Zehou (b. 1930) -- Toni Morrison (b. 1931) -- Richard Ohmann (b. 1931) -- Stuart Hall (1932-2014) -- Susan Sontag (1933-2004) -- Frederic Jameson (b. 1934) -- David Harvey (b. 1935) -- Edward W. Said (1935-2003) -- Monique Wittig (1935-2003) -- Benedict Anderson (1936-2015) -- Sandra M. Gilbert (b. 1936) and Susan Gubar (b. 1944) -- E. Ann Kaplan (b. 1936) -- Hélèn Cixous (b. 1937) -- Gerald Graff (b. 1937) -- Stanley E. Fish (b. 1938) -- Ngugi Wă Thiong''o (b. 1938), Taban Lo Liyong (b. 1939), and Henry Owuor-Anyumba (1933-1992) -- Tzvetan Todorov (1939-2017) -- Karatani Kōjin (b. 1941) -- Julia Kristeva (b. 1941) -- Laura Mulvey (b. 1941) -- Giorgio Agamben (b. 1942) -- Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004) -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (b. 1942) -- Terry Eagleton (b. 1943) -- Stephen J. Greenblatt (b. 1943) -- Donna Haraway (b. 1944) -- N. Katherine Hayles (b. 1943) -- Susan Bordo (b. 1947) -- Bruno Latour (b. 1947) -- Martha C. Nussbaum (b. 1947) -- Homi K. Bhabha (b. 1949) -- Lennard J. Davis (b. 1949) -- Gayle Rubin (b. 1949) -- Slavoj Žižek (b. 1949) -- Henry Louis Gates Jr. (b. 1950) -- Franco Morreti (b. 1950) -- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-2009) -- Hamid Dabashi (b. 1951) -- Dick Hebdige (b. 1951) -- Bell Hooks (b. Gloria Jean Watkins, 1952) -- Rosi Braidotti (b. 1954) -- Rob Nixon (b. 1954) -- Judith Butler (b. 1956) -- Paul Gilroy (b. 1956) -- Andrew Ross (b. 1956) -- Jane Bennett (b. 1957) -- Lauren Berlant (b. 1957) and Michael Warner (b. 1958) -- Rey Chow (b. 1957) -- Kenneth W. Warren (b. 1957) -- Kelly Oliver (b. 1958) -- Michael Hardt (b. 1960) and Antonio Negri (b. 1933) -- Judith Jack Halberstam (b. 1961) -- David Herman (b. 1962) -- Marc Bousquet (b. 1963) -- Mark McGurl (b. 1966) -- Stephen Best (b. 1969) and Sharon Marcus (b. 1966) -- Timothy Morton (b. 1968) -- Alondra Nelson (b. 1968) -- Sianne Ngai (b. 1971) -- Ian Bogost (b. 1976).
