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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This person was the first of the modern intellectual, who was born in 1712 and died in 1778.

Karl Marx

This person came from a family of Jewish scholars and received a doctorate from Jena University, but worked as a journalist after being unable to secure an academic position.

Bertrand Russell

This person was an orphan raised by his grandfather and later became a pacifist.

Jean-Paul Sartre

This person became famous for his plays and philosophy of individualism based on freedom through action.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

This person was an English poet and heir to a Baronetcy title.

Lillian Hellman

This person was blacklisted in Hollywood fro being a Communist and was called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Ernest Hemingway

This person was an alcoholic and later suffered depression which led to a decline in his writing in the 1940s.

Bertolt Brecht

This person rejected...

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