Where are the great thinkers of our era?

Question: Where are the great thinkers of our era!?
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Define great thinker! I mean to me that would have to be Einstein, Newton, Mark Twain, and Johnathon Swift!. The problem is in America we are not looking for great thinkers we are looking for the next Idol!. We do have a couple Bryan Green and others with work on string theory(a closer look into it and you might not think they are)!. There is also the Higgs Boson theorized by Peter Higgs in 1964!.!.!.also not to sure on this theory either!. There are great thinkers out there They are just hidden because the media does not care!. I mean what happened to when they use to report good stuff like Mother Teresa and Gandhi!. After they died there seemed to be no more humanitarians because people care more about Britney's car wrecks!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Wittgenstein 1889-1951 |
Adorno 1903-1969 |
Popper 1902-1994
Foucault 1926-1984 | -------------------- |
Marcuse 1898-1920!.!. |-----------------!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.-----!.!.!.
Kuhn 1922-1996 | -----------------!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.------!.!.!.

1!. The Wiener Kreis and Wittgenstein are sometimes said to be part of the Analytic School
2!. Popper and Kuhn are said to be part of the Scientific School
3!. French School philosophers like Foucault and Derrida are said to be member of Post Structuralism!.
4!. French School philosophers like Sartre and Camus are said to Existentialist

Existentialism
5!. Marcuse became fashionable since Paris student revolution (1968), partly by chance!.
6!. With Kuhn feeling is left again!. The disappearing of the Flower Power ideals!.
7!. All philosophers between the Spanish Civil War and the expected end of Capitalism
are bunched by me as economical rationalists or one dimensional men!.
Marcuse being the only exception, tragic because his analysis is right
but his followers choose one by one for the mainstream!.

You also have Simon de Beauvoir and Kristeva (women are somehow deleted from the list, I wonder why)

20th Century Names:
Alfred Adler
Theodor Adorno
John Austin
A!. J!. Ayer
Roland Barthes
Georges Bataille
Jean Baudrillard
Walter Benjamin
Henri Bergson
Maurice Blanchot
Brand Blanshard
C!. D!. Broad
Albert Camus
Rudolf Carnap
Noam Chomsky
Deleuze-Guattari
Donald Davidson
Jacques Derrida
Herbert Feigl
Michel Foucault
Philipp Frank
Erich Fromm
Sigmund Freud
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Kurt G?del
Jurgen Habermas
Hans Hahn
Friedrich Hayek
Martin Heidegger
Carl G!. Hempel
David Hilbert
Max Horkheimer
Edmund Husserl
Don Ihde
Karl Jaspers
Saul Kripke
Jacques Lacan
Emmanuel Levinas
David Lewis
Ernst Mach
Gabriel Marcel
Herbert Marcuse
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Richard Von Mises
G!. E!. Moore
C!. W!. Morris
Ernest Nagel
Otto Neurath
Michael Polanyi
Karl Popper
Hilary Putnam
W!. V!. Quine
F!. P!. Ramsey
John Rawls
Hans Reichenback
Paul Ricoeur
Richard Rorty
Louis Rougier
Bertrand Russell
Gilbert Ryle
Jean-Paul Sartre
Ferdinand de Saussure
Max Scheler
Georg Simmel
Yves R!. Simon
Leo Strauss
P!. F!. Strawson
Alfred Tarski
Paul Tillich
Friedrich Waismann
Alfred North Whitehead
John WisdomWww@QuestionHome@Com

Stephen HawkingWww@QuestionHome@Com