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Existentialism's public face; declined the Nobel Prize in 1964.

The Second Sex founded modern feminist philosophy.

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

The Plague and The Myth of Sisyphus; absurdism as an ethic.

Psychiatrist whose Wretched of the Earth remains the core text of decolonisation.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century put wealth inequality data at the centre of policy.

Randomised trials made development aid an experimental science.