Louis Althusser
French
Intellectual, fervent anti-Nazi, and later leading Marxist theoretician. He was convicted of the murder of his wife in 1980 and committed to an insane asylum.
Individuals who have had a major impact on the History of Values including our picks for the Top 100
Contemporaries
| 1909–1943 | Simone Weil |
| 1881–1955 | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
| 1847–1922 | Georges Sorel |
| 1871–1922 | Marcel Proust |
| 1915–1968 | Thomas Merton |
| 1882–1973 | Jacques Maritain |
| 1859–1947 | Pierre Janet |
| 1869–1951 | André Gide |
| 1910–1986 | Jean Genet |
| 1862–1921 | Georges Feydeau |
| 1859–1941 | Henri Bergson |
