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1889
September 26
Martin Heidegger is born in Messkirch, Germany.

1900
Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams appears.

1901
Jacques Lacan is born in Paris.

1906-1911
Ferdinand de Saussure teaches courses on linguistics and Indo-European languages at the University of Geneva. Based on lecture notes from these courses, his students Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye reconstructed Course in General Linguistics in 1915.

1915
Martin Heidegger begins his teaching career at the University of Freiburg.

1918
Louis Althusser is born in Algeria.

1923
Martin Heidegger moves to the University of Marburg.

1927
Martin Heidegger publishes Being and Time and returns to the University of Freiburg.

1930
Jacques Derrida is born in Algeria.

1933
Martin Heidegger aligns himself with the Nazi party in Germany.

1934-1938
Alexandre Kojève lectures in Paris on the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

1939
Sigmund Freud dies in London.

1946
As a result of his denazification hearing, Martin Heidegger's license to teach is revoked.

1949
December 1-2
Martin Heidegger delivers a series of lectures to the Bremen Club which will serve as the foundation for "The Question Concerning Technology"

1953
Roland Barthes publishes Writing Degree Zero.

1955
August 27 - September 4
A conference on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger is held in France at Cerisy-la-Salle. The philosopher Gilles Deleuze is one of the participants. Jacques Lacan meets with Heidegger following the conference.

Claude Lévi-Strauss publishes Tristes Tropiques.

1957
Roland Barthes publishes Mythologies.

1958
Claude Lévi-Strauss publishes Structural Anthropology.

1959
Jacques Derrida comes to France from Algeria to study at the Ecole Normale Supérieure

1961
Michel Foucault publishes Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason.

1965
December
The journal Critique publishes the essay "Of Grammatology (I)" by Jacques Derrida, one of the studies that form the basis of his book Of Grammatology.

1966
January
The journal Critique publishes the essay "Of Grammatology (II)" by Jacques Derrida, one of the studies that form the basis of his book Of Grammatology.

With the publication of Ecrits, a collection of his writings which includes the essay on the Mirror Stage, Jacques Lacan gains a wider audience among intellectuals.

Michel Foucault publishes The Order of Things: An Archeology of the Human Sciences.

1967
Jacques Derrida publishes Of Grammatology and Writing and Difference.

1970
Roland Barthes publishes S/Z.

1972
Jacques Derrida publishes Dissemination, Margins of Philosophy, and Positions.

1976
May 26
Martin Heidegger dies in Messkirch.

1979
Jean-François Lyotard publishes The Post-Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge.

1981
Jacques Lacan dies in Paris.