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Pastimes : A CENTURY OF LIONS/THE 20TH CENTURY TOP 100
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To: RTev who wrote (556)10/19/1999 4:14:00 PM
From: RTev  Read Replies (1) of 3246
 
The academic field of philosophy should get at least one or two entries. Sartre has been mentioned in at least one list. Because his work spanned disciplines to embrace literature and journalism as well as academic treatises, he might be a good choice.

However, as an academic he had less influence than one of his primary inspirations: Martin Heidegger. The German's work represents a good tie to continental philosophical traditions early and late in the century. He should take Sartre's position on the list.

On the Anglo-American side of things, Bertrand Russell might be a good choice since, like Sartre, his work crosses disciplines (with mathematics rather than literature as the second stream) and since, again like Sartre, he attained popular notoriety through political action.

I would argue instead for Russell's student Ludwig Wittgenstein whose early work had profound influence on a half-century of American and British philosophers and whose later works began a re-definition of the field in the English-speaking universities.
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