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This week's featured author pagesHenri Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (1767 - 1830) -- a leading French liberal who criticised Rousseau and advocated representative democracy
Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) -- Kafka's hugely influential novels and short stories prefigured existentialism and set the tone for much 20th century fiction
of Autrecourt Nicholas (1300 - 1300) -- a teacher in Paris, Nicholas' lectures anticipate some aspects of Hume's philosophy
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839 - 1914) -- American philosopher and founder of pragmatism
Marie Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette (1634 - 1693) -- French novelist, remembered for her La princesse de Clèves