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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Odo of Cluny</span> Benedictine monk, second abbot of Cluny

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mark Rowlands</span> Welsh writer and philosopher

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sigmund Freud Prize</span> Award

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Byung-Chul Han</span> German philosopher of South Korean origin

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"In Praise of Polytheism (On Monomythical and Polymythical Thinking)" (German: Lob des Polytheismus. Über Monomythie und Polymythie) is an essay by the German philosopher Odo Marquard, which was held as a lecture at Technische Universität Berlin in 1978. It was first published in 1979 in an anthology, and was published again in 1981 in Marquard's book Farewell to Matters of Principle (German: Abschied vom Prinzipiellen).

Martin William Francis Stone is an Irish philosopher who served as a professor of philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. In 2010 he was found guilty of plagiarizing texts in more than 40 publications and subsequently dismissed from his university post.

References

  1. Steven Pinker (16 Jan 2015). "Like Minds: Stephen Pinker Reviews "The Moral Arc"". omnivoracious.com. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24.
  2. "Universität Gießen trauert um Prof. Odo Marquard" [University of Giessen mourns the loss of Prof. Odo Marquard]. uni-giessen.de (in German). University of Giessen. 2015-05-11. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
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  4. Asian scholar Benedict Anderson dies in his sleep in Indonesia Archived 2015-12-17 at the Wayback Machine