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Post ten (10) thinkers that influenced your intellectual development the most

1.) Karl Marx of course
2.) Alfred North Whitehead
3.) Michel de Montaigne
4.) Walter Benjamin
5.) Ernst Bloch
6.) Maurice Merleau-Ponty
7.) Moishe Postone
8.) Michel Foucault
9.) Michael Heinrich
10.) William James

Are there any philosophers who wrote about fundamental existential questions?
I keep having this recurring thought and I am trying to find writing on similar questions:
What is the difference between natural and not natural? Where is the dividing line between something that can happen and something that can’t?

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I want to get into Political Philosophy and theory. Is there a chart specific to it?
What should I read before Leviathan?

I'm about to attempt my first book in a foreign language! Please give me all your advice for reading a book in a non-native language. I really want to get through this thing. Thank you, frens *gibs hug* :))))))