philosophers.

lili

which philosopher do you like the most and influenced your way to think?

simu

Mostly, I would think things through and come to conclusions all by my self and then years later, reading, i would find out which philosopher had first stated one of these ideas. Maybe, if I had to pick sb though, I'd say Pierre Bourdieu.

sanfran

Mostly, I would think things through and come to conclusions all by my self and then years later, reading, i would find out which philosopher had first stated one of these ideas

same here
albert camus/jean-paul sartre pour moi

Hip

Voltaire - Candide saved my sanity.

Nietzsche - you gotta love that crazy nihilist b@stard.

Sartre - "Hell is other people" from No Exit has to go down as one of the best lines ever.

Ancient1

Nietzsche - you gotta love that crazy nihilist b@stard.

LOL

I agree, Nietzsche and Jean Paul Sartre -essential reading.

DadaKopf

I'd definitely have to say Camus got me into philosophy when my Dad handed me a copy of 'The Outsider'. Then I went off and read nearly everything by him.

I've never really been into Sartre because I think he was wrong about lots of things. But maybe his prose saves his reputation. Nitzsche's cool 'cos he writes like a madman.

Philosophers' styles and ideas who have particularly excited me are Jean Baudrillard, Frederic Jameson, Guy Debord, Michel Foucault, Theodor Adorno, Jurgen Habermas.

But lots of non-philosopher thinkers have excited me, too, like David Held, Immanuel Wallerstein, Kees van der Pijl, stuff like that.