The explosive philosophical generation: Kant (1781), Fichte, Schelling, Hegel.
Marx and successors (Gramsci, Braverman, Losurdo): class struggle, alienation, surplus value; capital as dead labour living on living labour.
The river of thinkers who treat the mind as inherently plural, multi-voiced, and subjectively constituted, against the monistic-objectivist position best represented by Rand.
The return to Kant after Hegel, 1860-1920.
Life and becoming against system: Nietzsche, Dilthey, Bergson, Simmel.
Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty — the return to lived experience.
Buber's I and Thou (1923), Bakhtin's dialogism, Levinas's face: the self constituted in the between, in address and answer, before it is constituted in knowledge.
The Institute for Social Research, founded Frankfurt 1923, exiled to New York 1934, returned 1951.
Scheler, Plessner, Gehlen, after Herder: the human as instinct-poor, world-open Mängelwesen; institutions as Entlastung (relief).
Fanon, Said, Mills: liberal universalism as a membership good billed to the colonized and racialized.
Debord and Vaneigem, 1957-1972.
Simondon's individuation and mode of existence of technical objects (1958), Stiegler's Technics and Time (1994): the self on its membrane, and the human as originally prosthetic.
Kierkegaard: anxiety as the dizziness of freedom; the leap; the single individual before God.
Abram, Ingold, Tsing, Haraway: perception as participation, the meshwork, multispecies making-with.
Feuerbach's projection theory of religion; the left-Hegelian turn that led to Marx.