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Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), German-Jewish writer and thinker. More or less ignored as the third stooge, the 1990s saw the rise of a cottage industry of deconstructionists building upon his remains.
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), short French philosopher or such, Directeur d'Études, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Often translated by Peggy Kamuf, he is best-known for such works as L'Orgine de la Geometrie de Husserl (1962) [published in English as "Origin of Geometry", 1978], L'Ecriture et la Difference / Writing and Difference (1967/1978), De la Grammatologie / Of Grammatology (1967/1976), Le Verite en Peinture / The Truth in Painting (1979/1987), and Spectres de Marx / Specters of Marx (1993/1994) among many others. [Link]
Dieter (age unknown), host of Sprockets and often accompanied by either his monkey or his co-host Tina, he is the man behind the WB. Calling Dieter a one-trick pony would be too extreme; he merely wishes to inform the rest of us about this most important of 20th century thinkers.
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