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The existentialists include among their numbers important French authors who used fiction to convey their philosophical views; these include Jean-Paul Sartre's novel Nausea and play No Exit, and Albert Camus's The Stranger.


Epistemology of the Closet

According to Robert Tobin, a writer for Philosophy and Literature, "Readers who still hanker for expository prose without


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Danny Sillada

Sillada obtained his BA Philosophy and Literature at the Queen of Apostles College Seminary, Davao (1986); his graduate and post graduate studies in Bachelor in Sacred Theology (1990) and Pastoral Theology (1991) at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, and his MBA (units) at the Ateneo de Manila University (1993), Philippines.

Dorothee Sölle

Sölle studied theology, philosophy and literature at the University of Cologne, earning a doctorate with a thesis on the connections between theology and poetry.

Hagar the Womb

The band's drummer, who has a degree in Philosophy and Literature, went on to become a cult DJ under the name Chris Liberator.

Jacob Golomb

He specializes in Continental philosophy of the 19th and 20th centuries, phenomenology, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, philosophy and literature; Philosophy of Zionism and Jewish modern philosophy.

Jean-Charles Darmon

Resident of the Fondation Thiers, he completed his thesis there titled Philosophie épicurienne et littérature au xviie siècle en France : études sur Gassendi, Cyrano de Bergerac, La Fontaine, Saint-Évremond (Epicurean philosophy and literature in seventeenth-century in France: studies on Gassendi, Cyrano de Bergerac, La Fontaine, Saint-Evremond), regarding the heterodox currents of thought of classical France.

Lambert Schlechter

Born on 4 December 1941 in Luxembourg City, Schlechter studied philosophy and literature in Paris and Nancy before teaching at the Lycée Classique in Echternach.

Paavo Lipponen

Receiving his gymnasium diploma from the Lyceum of Kuopio in 1959, he then studied philosophy and literature at Dartmouth College for one year.

R. J. Hollingdale

Hollingdale (20 October 1930 – 28 September 2001) was best known as a biographer and a translator of German philosophy and literature, especially the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Goethe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, G. C. Lichtenberg, and Schopenhauer.

Richard Tipping

Richard Kelly Tipping was born in Adelaide, Australia, and studied film, philosophy and literature at Flinders University.

T. K. Seung

In a comparative examination of the thematic content of Goethe’s Faust, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, and Wagner’s Ring, Seung elucidates how the understanding of Spinoza’s pantheistic naturalism, its inspirational background and influences on European philosophy and literature, is indispensable for the understanding of the development and conditions of modern times.

Theo Peeters

Theo Peeters holds a License in Philosophy and Literature (University of Louvain), M.A. in Neurolinguistics (University of Brussels), MSc in Human Communications (University of London) and is affiliated to TEACCH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.