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                        | The Modern period of philosophy generally corresponds to the 19th and 20th Century. More recent developments in the late 20th Century are sometimes referred to as the Contemporary period. It includes the following major philosophers: 
| Bentham, Jeremy (1749 - 1832) English Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762 - 1814) German
 Hegel, G.W.F. (1770 - 1831) German
 Friedrich Schelling (1775 - 1854) German
 Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788 - 1860) German
 Comte, Auguste (1798 - 1857) French
 Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803 - 1882) American
 Mill, John Stuart (1806 - 1873) English
 Kierkegaard, Søren (1813 - 1855) Danish
 Thoreau, Henry David (1817 - 1862) American
 Marx, Karl (1818 - 1883) German
 Peirce, Charles Sanders (1839 - 1914) American
 James, William (1842 - 1910) American
 Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844 - 1900) German
 
 | Frege, Gottlob (1848 - 1925) German Dewey, John (1859 - 1952) American
 Husserl, Edmund (1859 - 1938) German
 Whitehead, Alfred North (1861 - 1947) English
 Russell, Bertrand (1872 - 1970) English
 Moore, George Edward (1873 - 1958) English
 Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1889 - 1951) Austrian
 Heidegger, Martin (1889 - 1976) German
 Ryle, Gilbert (1900 - 1976) English
 Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905 - 1980) French
 Quine, Willard Van Orman (1908 - 2000) American
 Ayer, Alfred (1910 - 1989) English
 Foucault, Michel (1926 - 1984) French
 Derrida, Jacques (1930 - 2004) French
 
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 Along with significant scientific and political revolutions, the Modern period exploded in a flurry of new philosophical movements. In addition to further developments in Age of Enlightenment movements such as German Idealism, Kantianism and Romanticism, the Modern period saw the rise of Continental Philosophy, Hegelianism, Transcendentalism, Existentialism, Marxism, Modernism, Positivism, Utilitarianism, Pragmatism, Analytic Philosophy, Logical Positivism, Ordinary Language Philosophy, Logicism, Phenomenology, and the more contemporary Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Post-Modernism and Deconstructionism, among others. 
 
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