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Thinker

The Thinker, Le Penseur in French, a bronze and marble sculpture by Auguste Rodin

Mad Thinker, a Marvel Comics character who uses robot minions

Intellectual, one who tries to use his or her intellect to work, study, reflect, speculate on, or ask and answer questions with regard to a variety of different ideas


1926 in Mandatory Palestine

10 January - Musallam Bseiso, Palestinian Arab thinker, intellectual, journalist, and politician.

Adolph Diesterweg

Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm Diesterweg (born October 29, 1790 in Siegen, died July 7, 1866 in Berlin) was a German educator and thinker who, also a progressive liberal politician, campaigned for the secularization of schools, and is said to be precursory to the reform of pedagogy.

Alex Hills

His most substantial work to date is 'Everything in Life can be Montaged', an hour long piece for soprano, 2 solo celli, percussion, ensemble and electronics based on ideas and texts by the Russian thinker Viktor Shklovsky.

Allan Gregg in Conversation with...

Allan Gregg in Conversation with... is a Canadian television series on TVOntario, hosted by Allan Gregg who interviews various authors, artists and leading thinkers.

Ambedkar

Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar, Indian jurist, political leader, Buddhist activist, philosopher, thinker, anthropologist, historian, orator, prolific writer, economist, scholar, editor, revolutionary and a revivalist for Buddhism in India.

Awesome Android

A synthesis of ape DNA and unstable molecules incorporated into an almost indestructible body with a microcomputer and a solar-power source, the newly christened Awesome Android is directed against the Fantastic Four, although the superhero team defeats both the Android and the Thinker.

Acquiring sentience, the Android rebels against the Thinker and seeks legal aid from law firm Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway (the firm that employs Jennifer Walters, the alter ego of heroine She-Hulk).

Canaanism

Some of the artists who took after the movement were the sculptor Yitzhak Danziger (whose Nimrod became a visual emblem of the Canaanite idea), novelist Benjamin Tammuz, writer Amos Kenan, novelist and translator Aharon Amir, thinker and linguist Uzzi Ornan and many others.

Corsican immigration to Venezuela

Arturo Uslar Pietri (May 16, 1906 – February 26, 2001) – writer, intellectual, political thinker, winner of the Miguel Cervantes Award

Doublespeak

Being himself one of the leaders of the Communist Party of Italy, (CPI), his theories had, in turn, been strongly influenced by the German social thinker Karl Marx, and have their ideological roots grounded in Marxist theory of false consciousness and capitalist exploitation.

Dr Francisco Luis Gomes District Library

Dr. Francisco Luis Gomes came to be known as a great Goan Parliamentarian, a linguist, thinker, master of several European and Indian languages, medical doctor, writer, orator, economist, campaigner for rights and social worker.

Du You

Du was "a political thinker on a grand scale," comparable to Ibn Khaldun, according to Robert G. Hoyland.

Fermi Project

Fermi and its projects have made national headlines when they asked Eboo Patel, a Muslim leader and thinker, to present to their ambitious Christian audience.

French philosophy

The Chambers Biographical Dictionary describes him as "the keenest thinker and boldest theologian of the 12th Century".

George B. Shaw

:Not to be confused with the Anglo-Irish playwright and social thinker George Bernard Shaw.

Hoveyda

Fereydoon Hoveyda (1924-2006) was an influential Iranian diplomat, writer and thinker.

I Am an Impure Thinker

I Am an Impure Thinker is a book by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973), German social philosopher and is an English-language introduction to Rosenstock-Huessy’s German-language book, Soziologie.

Indian logic

Haribhadra (8th century CE), a Jaina thinker, author and great proponent of anekāntavāda and classical yoga, as a soteriological system of meditation in Jaina context.

Institute for History of Musical Reception and Interpretation

Nikolaus Harnoncourt as conductor and music–thinker (klang-reden 3), Wolfgang Gratzer (ed.), Freiburg/Br.

Integral yoga

The former represents the Inner Guide which is realised through the Heart, the latter can be compared to the traditional concept of Vedantic, Buddhist and popular guru Enlightenment and the descriptions of the Causal and Ultimate stages of spiritual development in the evolutionary philosophy of the integral thinker Ken Wilber.

Intellectual history

A famous example of an intellectual history of a non-canonical thinker is Carlo Ginzburg's study of a 16th-century Italian miller, Menocchio, in his seminal work The Cheese and the Worms.

James Gordon, Jr.

During the Forever Evil storyline, James Gordon, Jr. is seen at Belle Reve, where he learns that Thinker and King Shark are building a satellite.

José Baquíjano y Carrillo, Count of Vistaflorida

Baquíjano was a mercantilist economic thinker, although he was also influenced by the English economist Josiah Child, a qualified exponent of free trade.

K. Sukumaran

K. Sukumaran was born on 8 January 1903 to great reformer, thinker and socio-cultural leader C.V. Kunhiraman and Kunjikavu in Mayyanad of Kollam District who established Kerala Kaumudi as a periodical in 1911.

Katechon

In Nomos of the Earth, German political thinker Carl Schmitt suggests the historical importance within traditional Christianity of the idea of the katechontic "restrainer" that allows for a Rome-centered Christianity, and that "meant the historical power to restrain the appearance of the Antichrist and the end of the present eon."

Kondylis

Panagiotis Kondylis (1943–1998), philosopher, writer and thinker, PhD at the University of Heidelberg

Little Thinker

At regular intervals, the hostess would play music (from the Production music provider, Valentino Music) to allow the Little Thinker time to draw a picture of the events imagined in the previous segment.

Louis Kugelmann

Louis Kugelmann, or Ludwig Kugelmann (February 19, 1828, Lemförde - January 9, 1902 Hannover) was a German gynecologist, social democratic thinker and activist, and confidant of Marx and Engels.

Lounès Matoub

Lounès Matoub (in Kabyle: Lwennas Maṭub, in Tifinagh: ⵍⵡⴻⵏⵏⴰⵙ ⵎⴰⵟⵓⴱ, Algerian Arabic: مطوب لوناس) (January 24, 1956 – June 25, 1998) was a famous Berber Kabyle singer,poet,thinker and mondol player who was a prominent advocate of the Berber cause, human rights and secularism in Algeria throughout his life.

Luftwaffenhelfer

Niklas Luhmann (German sociologist, and a prominent thinker in sociological systems theory.)

Mohammed Salim

Mohammad Salim Al-Awa (born December 22, 1942) (Secretary General of the International Union for Muslim Scholars) Egyptian Islamist thinker, widely considered to belong to the moderate Islamic democratic strain

Paolo Volponi

His career as a writer was profoundly influenced by his meeting with the enlightened social thinker and industrialist Adriano Olivetti in 1950, for whom he worked as an assistant and then as director of social services at the Olivetti factory at Ivrea.

PM Press

PM also published previously unpublished work on politics from Trinidadian revolutionary thinker CLR James, works by the London stencil artist Banksy, healthy cooking from Bitch Magazine founder Lisa Jervis; Arena, a journal of anarchist arts and culture edited by Stuart Christie; and a new imprint with DC’s Busboys & Poets.

Richard Greeman

During 1963-64, Greeman returned to Paris with a French Government scholarship, took courses at the Sorbonne, began his research on the life and works of Victor Serge (1890–1947) whom he admired both as a novelist, a revolutionary witness, and a libertarian socialist thinker.

Robert Gilman

Robert C. Gilman is a thinker on sustainability who, along with his late wife Diane Gilman, has researched and written about ecovillages.

Samuel Rutherford

Rutherford's political book Lex, Rex was written in response to John Maxwell's "Sacro-Sanctum Regus Majestas" and presented a theory of limited government and constitutionalism raised Rutherford to merited eminence as a philosophical thinker.

Shivajirao Bhosale

Professor Shivajirao Bhosale (Marathi: शिवाजीराव भोसले; July 15, 1927 – June 29, 2010) was a noted orator and thinker from Maharashtra, India.

St Pauls Catholic College

The 19th-Century English convert and thinker John Henry Newman was the inspiration for the new name and the new motto was "Heart speaks to Heart".

Steven Heine

Furthermore, he is an innovative interpreter of Zen in both a traditional and modern context and has translated and edited works by Masao Abe, the eminent modern Japanese thinker.

Suspension railway

German industrial pioneer, thinker and politician Friedrich Harkort built a demonstration track of Palmers' system in 1826, in Elberfeld, Germany, at the time commercial centre of the early industrial area Wupper Valley.

The Buffalo News

In 1958, Bruce Shanks received the Editorial Cartooning award for his August 10, 1957 piece, "The Thinker," detailing union corruption.

The Education of Lev Navrozov

Saul Bellow, the Nobel-prize winning novelist, responded to The Education by using Navrozov as the model for a modern Russian dissident thinker in two of his books, thereby beginning a lively correspondence that continued until the American novelist's death.

Thomas Hirschhorn

Gramsci Monument (2013), named after the Italian thinker Antonio Gramsci, is the first project that Hirschhorn has built in the United States and the fourth and final such work in a series he began many years ago dedicated to his favorite philosophers, following a monument dedicated to Baruch Spinoza in Amsterdam in 1999, one to Gilles Deleuze in Avignon, France, in 2000 and a third to Georges Bataille in Kassel, Germany, in 2002.

Two-stage model of free will

The most recent thinker to describe a two-stage model is Martin Heisenberg (son of physicist Werner Heisenberg), chair of the University of Würzburg's BioZentrum genetics and neurobiology section.

Víctor Andrés García Belaúnde

His grandfather, the influential thinker, writer and diplomat Víctor Andrés Belaúnde was President of the United Nations General Assembly from 1959 to 1960 and his uncle Fernando Belaúnde Terry was the founder of the Popular Action and twice democratically elected President (1963–1968 and 1980–1985).

Water cycle

The first published thinker to assert that rainfall alone was sufficient for the maintenance of rivers was Bernard Palissy (1580 CE), who is often credited as the "discoverer" of the modern theory of the water cycle.

World Policy Institute

Founded in New York City in 1961 as the Fund for Education Concerning World Peace through World Law by bankers Harry B. Hollins and C. Douglas Dillon, who were inspired by the World Federalism thinker Grenville Clark.


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