Gorbachev gets a spot but Stalin doesn’t. They include Mao and Lenin. Under philosophers, they ignore obvious choices like Plato, Nietzsche, [Marx is relegated to “cultural icon”], and really anyone but Buddha, Confucius, and Aristotle for people who are conventionally seen in the west as “philosophers”. Thank God they didn’t waste a spot on Kant, had to make sure to include Billy Graham and Mother fucking Theresa! “But Graham was a Civil Rights activist!” This would maybe be a valid point if they had Malcolm X (let alone someone like Huey Newton), but they don’t.
Also Mary Wollstonecraft gets put in “cultural icon” instead of “philosopher”, which I find kind of odd, but Beauvoir doesn’t appear anywhere either.
Furthermore, the list is extraordinarily American-centric, but that goes without saying. Who in their right fucking mind puts Obama on this list? Elvis? Dr. Seuss, maybe, but how in the world does P.T. Barnum qualify?
So, you can get the table of contents from the sample here:
https://frontrange.overdrive.com/frontrange-lafayette/content/media/6724435?cid=1160906
Gorbachev gets a spot but Stalin doesn’t. They include Mao and Lenin. Under philosophers, they ignore obvious choices like Plato, Nietzsche, [Marx is relegated to “cultural icon”], and really anyone but Buddha, Confucius, and Aristotle for people who are conventionally seen in the west as “philosophers”. Thank God they didn’t waste a spot on Kant, had to make sure to include Billy Graham and Mother fucking Theresa! “But Graham was a Civil Rights activist!” This would maybe be a valid point if they had Malcolm X (let alone someone like Huey Newton), but they don’t.
Also Mary Wollstonecraft gets put in “cultural icon” instead of “philosopher”, which I find kind of odd, but Beauvoir doesn’t appear anywhere either.
Furthermore, the list is extraordinarily American-centric, but that goes without saying. Who in their right fucking mind puts Obama on this list? Elvis? Dr. Seuss, maybe, but how in the world does P.T. Barnum qualify?