39.8% of matchups won
259 matchups
Elo 1573
tracked 2025/05/25 → 2026/09/10
mission: Philosophy, criticism, and aesthetics · Philosophy and cultural theory · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing35%
picked as helping wellbeing
204 matchups
56%
picked as hurting wellbeing
55 matchups
On balance people see it as hurting.
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2025-08-29Related
Similar people
01
Jean Baudrillard
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22.0% wins · French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
02
Mark Fisher
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39.9% wins · British cultural theorist (1968-2017)
03
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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50.0% wins · Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
04
Martin Heidegger
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52.5% wins · German philosopher (1889–1976)
05
Hannah Arendt
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28.5% wins · German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)
Known for
- The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
- Theses on the Philosophy of History
- The Origin of German Tragic Drama
- One Way Street
- The Arcades Project
Based on 259 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/09/10. Full rankings ·
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