STRAW DOGS Characters - Alphabetical

FIRST NAME LAST NAME DESCRIPTION Dante Alighieri Italian poet. Aka: Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri, Dante. John Aspinall Gambler and conservationist. Francis Bacon English philosopher and statesman. J. G. Ballard English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Julian Barbour British physicist. Gregory Bateson English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist. Tycho Brahe Danish nobleman, astronomer, and writer. Hugh Brody British anthropologist, writer, director and lecturer. Peter Brook Theatre director. R. A. Brooks Roboticist and author. Samuel Butler English author. Jean Charcot French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology. Bruce Chatwin English travel writer, novelist, and journalist. Yang Chu Chinese philosopher. Aka: Yang Zhu, Yang Zi, Yangzi. Marcus Tullius Cicero Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher. E. M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist. Auguste Comte French philosopher and writer. Cyril Connolly English literary critic and writer. Joseph Conrad One of writers deeply affected by Schopenhauer philosophy. Nicolaus Copernicus Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer. Charles Darwin English naturalist, geologist and biologist. Giorgio de Chirico Italian artist and writer. Joseph de Maistre French-speaking Savoyard philosopher, lawyer, and diplomat. Bernard de Mandeville Anglo-Dutch philosopher, political economist and satirist. Thomas de Quincey English essayist. Joel de Rosnay Sciences and scientific writer, President of Biotics International Henri de Saint-Simon French political and economic theorist. Guy Debord French Marxist theorist and philosopher. René Descartes French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Jared Diamond American geographer, historian, and author.   Dostoevsky Russian novelist, short story writer, journalist and philosopher. George Dyson American-Canadian non-fiction author and historian of technology. Meister Eckardt German theologian, philosopher and mystic. Anton Ehrenzweig Austrian author and psychoanalyst. Albert Einstein German-born theoretical physicist. Havelock Ellis Physician, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer. Max Ernst German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. Nikolai Fedorov Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher. Paul Karl Feyerabend Austrian-born philosopher. Brian J. Ford Independent research biologist, author, and lecturer. Charles F. Fourier French philosopher. Sigmund Freud Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. Roman Frister The prisoner who stole the cap. Francis Fukuyama American political scientist, political economist, and author.   Gallimard Debord's new publisher. Antoni Gaudí Architect known as greatest exponent of Catalan Modernism. William Gibson American-Canadian fiction writer. Marija Gimbutas American-Lithuanian archaeologist. William Golding Novelist. A. C. Graham Welsh scholarcand Sinologist. Robert Graves British poet, historical novelist, critic, and classicist. T. H. Green English philosopher, political radical and temperance reformer. Graham Greene English novelist. Jerzy Grotowski Polish theatre director. Henepola Gunaratana Buddhist meditation teacher. G. I. Gurdjieff Mystic, philosopher, spiritual teacher, and composer. Thomas Hardy One of writers deeply affected by Schopenhauer philosophy. Georg Hegel German philosopher and an important figure of German idealism. Martin Heidegger German philosopher and a seminal thinker.   Heinrich German physician. Werner Heisenberg German theoretical physicist.   Heller Russian historian. Gustaw Herling Polish writer, journalist, essayist. Thomas Hobbes English philosopher. Sam Hose Black Georgian who was tortured and executed. David Hume Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist. Edmund Husserl Heidegger's old friend and former teacher. Robinson Jeffers American poet. Bill Joy One of the pioneers of the new information technologies. C. G. Jung Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Immanuel Kant German philosopher. Nikos Kazantzakis Greek writer. Johannes Kepler German astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer. Arthur Koestler Hungarian-British author and journalist. Jiddu Krishnamurti Indian philosopher, speaker and writer. Ray Kurzweil American inventor and futurist. William Lanner The man whose grave was opened by Dr George Stokell. D. H. Lawrence English writer and poet. Stanislaw Lem Polish writer and a trained physician. Vladimir Lenin Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. Leonard C. Lewin American writer. Wyndham Lewis English writer, painter and critic. Benjamin Libet Pioneering scientist in the field of human consciousness. James Lovelock Independent scientist, environmentalist, and futurist. Karl Lowith German philosopher, a student of Husserl and Heidegger. Niccolò Machiavelli Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher. Thomas Malthus English cleric and scholar. Thomas Mann One of writers deeply affected by Schopenhauer philosophy. Chairman Mao Former Chairman of the Communist Party of China. Eugene Marais South African poet and naturalist. Lynn Margulis American evolutionary theorist and biologist. Karl Marx German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist. Fritz Mauthner Austro-Hungarian novelist, theatre critic and satirist. Anton Mesmer German doctor with an interest in astronomy. Czeslaw Milosz Polish poet, prose writer, translator and diplomat. Jacques Monod One of the founders of molecular biology. Hans Moravec Futurist. Reg Morrison Author. Oswald Mosley British Politician.   Nekrich Soviet historian. Isaac Newton English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, author. Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher. son of a Lutheran minister. Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist, inventor, Catholic theologian. Noel Perrin American essayist. Fernando Pessoa Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, publisher and philosopher. Karl Popper Austrian-British philosopher and professor. O. Potzl Neurologist. John Rawls American moral and political philosopher in the liberal tradition. Goronwy Rees Welsh journalist, academic and writer. Jeremy Rifkin American economic and social theorist, writer, and activist. Richard Rudgley British author. Bertrand Russell British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian and writer. Dorion Sagan American author, essayist, fiction writer, and theorist. Marshall Sahlins American anthropologist, Lou Andreas- Salome Nietzsche's lover. N. K. Sandars British archaeologist and prehistorian. Adi Sankara Indian philosopher and theologian. Aka: Shankara. George Santayana Philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. Arnold Schoenberg American-Austrian composer. Arthur Schopenhauer German philosopher. Erwin Schrödinger Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist. Varlam Shalamov Russian writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor. George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. Leo Shestov Russian writer. Angelus Silesius German Catholic priest and physician. Baruch Spinoza Jewish-Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi origin. Joseph Stalin Soviet Georgian revolutionary and politician. Constantin Stanislavsky Russian theatre practitioner. Dr George Stokell Member of the Royal Society of Tasmania. Rebecca Stone Miller Author of Art of the Andes. Leo Tolstoy One of writers deeply affected by Schopenhauer philosophy. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Russian rocket engineer. Mary Turner Pregnant black woman who was brutally murdered. Kaspar Utz Character from Bruce Chatwin's novel Utz. Raoul Vaneigem Belgian writer. Francisco Varela Cognitive scientist. Rex Warner English classicist, writer and translator. E. O. Wilson The greatest contemporary Darwinian. Ludwig Wittgenstein Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic. Adrian Woolfson Author. Alexander   King of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. Ananda   Buddha's faithful disciple. Aristotle   Greek philosopher and scientist. Augustine   Philosopher. Chuang-Tzu   Chinese philosopher. Aka: Zhuang Zhou, Zhuangzi. Dionysus   Ancient Greek cult of the god. Epicurus   Ancient Greek philosopher. Euripides   Tragedian of classical Athens. Galileo   Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer. Homer   Legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Icarus   Son of the master craftsman Daedalus. Nagarjuna   Indian philosopher Plato   Philosopher. Prometheus   Titan, culture hero, and trickster. Protagoras   Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Pyrrho   Founder of Greek Scepticism. Sisyphus   Greek mythology Sisyphus or Sisyphos was the king of Ephyra. Socrates   Greek philosopher. Tertullian   Theologian who lived in Carthage. Zarathustra   Ancient Iranian prophet, spiritual leader and ethical philosopher.