Your favourite philosophers?

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Karl Marx recently came top of a poll to find the public‘ s Greatest Philosopher. The poll was organised by BBC Radio 4‘ s In Our Time programme, hosted by Melvyn Bragg. Listeners were asked to nominate their all-time greatest thinker, and the twenty most popular names formed a shortlist which was then used as the basis of a vote on the Internet.

I like Marx in theory, as well, but he underestimated the power of capitalism. It doesn't detract from a compelling argument, but I find Foucault more useful in trying to understand the flow of power.

If you are looking at Marx's theory in relation to power, however, a useful concept, hegemony, was developed by Antonio Gramsci, another Marxist

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
I am a fan of Kafka.

Kafka's a nutter.

Francis Bacon or Richard Feynman