Russell Kirk
American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, and literary critic, known for his influence on 20th-century American conservatism
philosopher
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 Kundera’s Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979; he received his Czech citizenship in 2019.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
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer
Soren Kierkegaard
Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher
Horace
Leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus . The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: “He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words.”Horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses and caustic iambic poetry . The hexameters are amusing yet serious works, friendly in tone, leading the ancient satirist Persius to comment: “as his friend laughs, Horace slyly puts his finger on his every fault; once let in, he plays about the heartstrings”.His career coincided with Rome’s momentous change from a republic to an empire
Victor Hugo
French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement
Johan Huizinga
Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history.