| Life | School | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1596-1650 | Rationalism | I think, therefore I am | René Descartes | 96%
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| 1694-1778 | Enlightenment | Candide | Voltaire | 89%
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| 1905-1980 | Existentialism | Nausea | Jean-Paul Sartre | 88%
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| 1712-1778 | Enlightenment | The Social Contract | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 84%
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| 1913-1960 | Existentialism | The Stranger | Albert Camus | 81%
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| 1908-1986 | Feminism | The Second Sex | Simone de Beauvoir | 81%
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| 1930-2004 | (Post-)Structuralism | Deconstruction | Jacques Derrida | 69%
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| 1926-1984 | (Post-)Structuralism | Madness and Civilization | Michel Foucault | 66%
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| 1713-1784 | Enlightenment | Encyclopedia | Denis Diderot | 60%
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| 1623-1662 | Religious Philosophy | The wager | Blaise Pascal | 53%
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| 1689-1755 | Political Philosophy | Separation of powers | Montesquieu | 53%
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| 1533-1592 | Humanism | The Essays | Michel de Montaigne | 52%
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| 1901-1981 | Psychoanalysis | Return to Freud | Jacques Lacan | 47%
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| 1952- | Materialism | A Short Treatise on the Great Virtues | André Comte-Sponville | 45%
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| 1798-1857 | Positivism | Progress as religion | Auguste Comte | 45%
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| 1929-2007 | (Post-)Structuralism | Simulacra | Jean Baudrillard | 45%
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| 1805-1859 | Political philosophy | Democracy in America | Alexis de Tocqueville | 44%
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| 1908-2009 | Structuralism | Tristes Tropiques | Claude Lévi-Strauss | 42%
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| 1859-1941 | Spiritualism | Laughter | Henri Bergson | 39%
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| 1915-1980 | Semiotics and Structuralism | Mythologies | Roland Barthes | 38%
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| 1925-1995 | (Post-)Structuralism | Difference and Repetition | Gilles Deleuze | 34%
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| 1931-1994 | Political Philosophy | The Society of the Spectacle | Guy Debord | 33%
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| 1918-1990 | (Post-)Structuralism, Marxism | The New Marx | Louis Althusser | 32%
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| 1906-1995 | Phenomenology and Existentialism | the Other | Emmanuel Levinas | 30%
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| 1909-1943 | Modern Platonism | Waiting for God | Simone Weil | 28%
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| 1858-1917 | Social philosophy | Social cohesion | Emile Durkheim | 27%
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| 1924-1998 | Poststructuralism | Postmodernism | Jean-François Lyotard | 26%
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| 1930-2002 | Social Philosophy | Distinction | Pierre Bourdieu | 22%
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| 1937- | Postmarxism | Truth procedures | Alain Badiou | 21%
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| 1897-1962 | Surrealism | The Accursed Share | Georges Bataille | 20%
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| 1951- | Humanism | Briefly minister of education | Luc Ferry | 20%
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| 1949- | Cultural philosophy | critic of muliticulturalism | Alain Finkielkraut | 18%
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| 1847-1922 | Marxism | defender of violence | Georges Sorel | 17%
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| 1941- | Linguistic philosophy | the semiotic | Julia Kristeva | 17%
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| 1881-1955 | Speculative philosophy | The Phenomenon of Man | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | 15%
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