Thinkers Timeline

NOTE — years are layout anchors (floruit or a key work), not birth–death biographies and not a claim of precision. Boxes marked c. are especially approximate: ancient Near Eastern / Axial dates, multi-author clusters, and composition-vs-publication cases. Known caveats: Egyptian–Mesopotamian dream craft spans many centuries (the ~1200 BCE pin is New Kingdom / early omen literature, not a single book); Zoroaster's floruit is among the most contested in the set (pin ~1000 BCE is conventional, not consensus); early Upanishads and the Buddha's dates are contested by decades or more; Laozi's authorship and date are themselves disputed; Confucius is traditional 551–479 BCE; Socrates is pinned to 399 BCE (death), Plato·Aristotle to ~375 BCE (Republic-era akrasia, not Aristotle's later Ethics); Aristotle·techne is a lexical pin (~350 BCE), not a separate Ethics monograph date; Leibniz's New Essays were written c. 1704 but published 1765; Schopenhauer's World as Will is conventionally 1819 though issued late 1818; Freud's Interpretation of Dreams is conventionally 1900 though it appeared late 1899; Jung is pinned to the 1912 break / Psychology of the Unconscious (collective unconscious), with Sabina Spielrein's 1912 destruction paper as the hinge often erased from the father–son story — his 1930s race/nation texts are argued in the Grounding margin, not as a second timeline pin; Gramsci's hegemony pin is c. 1930 inside the 1929–35 Prison Notebooks; Lacan's pin is the 1953 Rome discourse / RSI turn (Mirror Stage canonical text is 1949); Heidegger's Gestell lecture was delivered late 1953 and published 1954; Fanon is pinned to Black Skin, White Masks (1952), not only Wretched of the Earth (1961); Simondon 1958; Rosa's social acceleration to the 2005 German habilitation (English 2013); Jameson's postmodernism book 1991 (essay 1984); Wynter to the 2003 "Unsettling the Coloniality…" essay; Baudrillard·Lyotard clustered at 1974; Popper pinned to Conjectures and Refutations (1963) though falsifiability is already in the 1934/1959 Logic of Scientific Discovery; Fechner to Elemente der Psychophysik (1860). Period washes are the same kind of approximation. Edges are illustrative — for the precise, collision-checked version of any single lineage, follow the click-through to its source page. The timeline keeps the same "who gets a box" judgment calls the source diagrams already made, groups tightly-coupled co-authors the way they do (Deleuze & Guattari, Adorno & Horkheimer; Lorde · hooks), and quietly drops pure biographical asides. Honest counts: named women were ~5 among ~100 person nodes in the first timeline (~5%); after the expansion passes they are about 29 of ~135 person/cluster nodes (~21%) — still a minority, denser in late-twentieth-century feminism and Black/decolonial theory than in the older European archive, and still thinner on the techne and Grounding spines than on Genealogies and Constellations. Colonial critique lives inside Constellations; techne / Gestell / Stiegler / Hui / Hayles is its own essay track — Genealogies still keeps Heidegger at Being and Time only.