philosopher

Russell Kirk

American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, and literary critic, known for his influence on 20th-century American conservatism

Thomas S. Kuhn

American philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom

Milan Kundera

Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, becoming a naturalised French citizen in 1981. Kundera’s Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979; he received his Czech citizenship in 2019. He “sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores”.Kundera’s best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Stanislaw Lem

Polish writer of science fiction and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism

C. G. Jung

Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology

Soren Kierkegaard

Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher