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This week's featured author pages

Sophocles (496 - 406) -- most successful Greek tragedian, producing what were considered perfect tragedies as well as reforming the performance of Greek tragedy.

Franz Brentano (1838 - 1917) -- German philosopher who, building on Aristotle and from an empirical standpoint, developed a philosophy which was a forerunner to phenomenology

Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) -- Kafka's hugely influential novels and short stories prefigured existentialism and set the tone for much 20th century fiction

Abu Nasr al- Farabi (872 - 950) -- Islamic Neo-platonist philosopher

Edward Bellamy (1850 - 1896) -- American political theorist and novelist