Great Minds
Architects of thought · Masters of the inner world

Gordon Willard Allport
Gordon Willard Allport (1897–1967) was an American psychologist and a pioneering figure in personality psychology, widely regarded…
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Iraqi-born British historian who argued that nationalism is not an ancient passion but a specific modern doctrine invented around …
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Eric Hobsbawm
British Marxist historian who argued that nations are not ancient communities but modern inventions, and that nationalism must be …
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Anthony D. Smith
British sociologist who founded ethno-symbolism as a corrective to modernist theories of nationalism. While Ernest Gellner and Ben…
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Benedict Anderson
American political scientist who reconceived the nation as an 'imagined community'—a deep horizontal comradeship among people who …
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British-Czech philosopher and anthropologist who argued that nationalism is not a primordial force but a structural product of ind…
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John Lewis Holland
John Lewis Holland was a distinguished American psychologist and Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University, widely regarded a…
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Donald Edwin Super
Donald Edwin Super was a pioneering American psychologist and a towering figure in the field of vocational psychology and career c…
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Frank Parsons was an American professor, social reformer, and public intellectual who is widely regarded as the father of the voca…
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Antonio R. Damasio
Antonio R. Damasio (born 1944) is a Portuguese neuroscientist and neurologist whose groundbreaking research has fundamentally resh…
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Oliver Wolf Sacks
Oliver Sacks (1933–2015) was a British-American neurologist, naturalist, and author who became one of the most beloved and influen…
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Eric Richard Kandel
Eric R. Kandel (1929– ) is an Austrian-born American neuropsychiatrist and neuroscientist whose pioneering research on the molecul…
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