German Philosophers

Can you name these German speaking philosophers? Yes, some might not be German nationals and some even might have given up their original citizenship.
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1844-1900
philosophy with a hammer
Christianity is a slave morality
Friedrich Nietzsche
1947-
cultural philosophy
finding alternatives for cynicism
Peter Sloterdijk
1906-1975
political philosophy
the origins of totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
1724-1804
enlightened philospher
the categorical imperative
Immanuel Kant
1888-1985
political and legal philosopher
the concept of the political
Carl Schmitt
1804-1872
Left Hegelian
man must have created God
Ludwig Feuerbach
1900-2002
Hermeneutic philosophy
Truth and Method
Hans-Georg Gadamer
1889-1951
philosophy of language and logic
Whereof one cannot speak, one must be silent.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1818-1883
political philosophy
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle
Karl Marx
1646-1716
rational philosophy
the best possible world
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
1889-1976
ontological and existential philosophy
Being and Time
Martin Heidegger
1744-1803
philosophy of language and history
all peoples have their own specific identity
Johann Gottfried von Herder
1770-1831
idealistic philosophy
Dialectics
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1883-1969
esistential philosopher
the question of the German guilt
Karl Jaspers
1903-1969
political philosophy
Minima Moralia
Theodor Adorno
1898-1979
political philosophy
the one dimensional man
Herbert Marcuse
1859-1938
phenemenological philosophy
founder of phenomenology
Edmond Husserl
ca1260-1328
Christian Mysticism
Only medieval theologian condemned a heretic by the inquisition
Meister Eckhart
1928-
political philosophy
communicative rationality
Jürgen Habermas
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Level 47
Aug 28, 2025
Wittgenstein is technically Austrian.