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title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
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Walter Benjamin | Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin | 1892 | 1940 | German | Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin |
Theodore Dalrymple | Anthony Malcolm Daniels | 1949 | n/a | English | cultural critic, prison physician and psychiatrist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Dalrymple |
Neil Postman | Neil Postman | 1931 | 2003 | American | author, educator, media theorist and cultural critic, who eschewed technology, including personal computers in school and cruise control in cars, and is best known for twenty books regarding technology and education, including Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), Conscientious Objections (1988), Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (1992), The Disappearance of Childhood (1982) and The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School (1995) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Postman |
Siegfried Kracauer | Siegfried Kracauer | 1889 | 1966 | German | writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Kracauer |
A. O. Scott | Anthony Oliver Scott | 1966 | n/a | American | journalist and cultural critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._O._Scott |
Martin Jay | Martin Evan Jay | 1944 | n/a | American | intellectual historian whose research interests have connected history with other academic and intellectual activities, such as the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, social theory, cultural criticism, and historiography | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Jay |
Greil Marcus | Greil Marcus | 1945 | n/a | American | author, music journalist and cultural critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greil_Marcus |
Anna Khachiyan | Anna Khachiyan | 1985 | n/a | Russian | cultural critic, writer, and co-host of the podcast Red Scare based in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Khachiyan |
Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Ruth Ben-Ghiat | null | null | American | historian and cultural critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ben-Ghiat |
Julien Benda | Julien Benda | 1867 | 1956 | French | philosopher and novelist, known as an essayist and cultural critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_Benda |
Laura Kipnis | Laura Kipnis | null | null | American | cultural critic and essayist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Kipnis |
Philip Rieff | Philip Rieff | 1922 | 2006 | American | sociologist and cultural critic, who taught sociology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1961 until 1992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Rieff |
Gilbert Seldes | Gilbert Vivian Seldes | 1893 | 1970 | American | writer and cultural critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Seldes |
Wayne Koestenbaum | Wayne Koestenbaum | 1958 | n/a | American | artist, poet, and cultural critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Koestenbaum |
Gershon Legman | Gershon Legman | 1917 | 1999 | American | cultural critic and folklorist, best known for his books The Rationale of the Dirty Joke (1968) and The Horn Book: Studies in Erotic Folklore and Bibliography (1964) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gershon_Legman |
Johanna Drucker | Johanna Drucker | 1952 | n/a | American | author, book artist, visual theorist, and cultural critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_Drucker |
Sacvan Bercovitch | Sacvan Bercovitch | 1933 | 2014 | Canadian | literary and cultural critic who spent most of his life teaching and writing in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacvan_Bercovitch |
Vivian Sobchack | Vivian Carol Sobchack | null | null | American | cinema and media theorist and cultural critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Sobchack |
Felix Bernstein (artist) | Felix Bernstein | 1992 | n/a | null | performance artist, video artist, writer, and cultural critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Bernstein_(artist) |
Lisa E. Bloom | Lisa E. Bloom | 1958 | n/a | American | cultural critic, educator and feminist art historian specializing in polar studies, contemporary art, environmental art, history of photography, visual culture and film studies and is known for her books and essay contributions to these areas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_E._Bloom |