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All categories Literature & Letters202 Natural Sciences96 Mathematics & Computing36 Medicine & Healing Traditions99 Engineering & Technology24 Society, Peace & Law42 Economics, Business & Politics52 Music & Visual Arts0

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All disciplines Literature125 Philosophy87 New Thought21 Theology10 History23 Linguistics1

Novelists, poets, philosophers, theologians, New Thought authors, historians and the students of language itself.

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3 figures

Søren Kierkegaard

1813 – 1855

First existentialist; wrote on anxiety, despair and the leap of faith.

Denmark·Philosophy · Theology

Emmet Fox

1886 – 1951

Filled New York auditoriums in the Depression; his writing shaped early Alcoholics Anonymous.

Ireland·New Thought · Theology

Simone Weil

1909 – 1943

Wrote on attention, affliction and rootedness while working the factory floor.

France·Philosophy · Theology