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radical philosopher and mystic whose politics ran from union organizing and factory labor to a Christian critique of uprooted industrial civilization — she died at thirty-four on the rations of occupied France",1909,1943,{"is_primary":115,"thinkers":209},{"id":210,"era":147,"name":211,"slug":212,"one_line":213,"birth_year":214,"death_year":215,"portrait_url":134,"sort_priority":135},154,"Søren Kierkegaard","soren-kierkegaard","Søren Kierkegaard was the father of existentialism, whose attack on Hegelian system-building and the complacency of state Christianity reshaped 20th-century philosophy, theology, and political thought",1813,1855,{"is_primary":115,"thinkers":217},{"id":218,"era":147,"name":219,"slug":220,"one_line":221,"birth_year":222,"death_year":223,"portrait_url":134,"sort_priority":185},256,"Thomas Carlyle","thomas-carlyle","Thomas Carlyle was an anti-democratic Victorian prophet who attacked industrial capitalism and parliamentary government with equal ferocity, preaching 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