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I'd certainly never heard of him before stumbling across that article. He's featured in the two most well known history of philosophy books, Russell's A History of Western Philosophy and Durant's The Story of Philosophy. Although his prestige certainly does seem to have greatly diminished with the ...

A fairly straightforward question mainly concerning a scholastic sense of importance, but it would also be good to take into account regional trends since that's a large factor as well.

So which philosophers have either risen from obscurity or suffered a massive decline in academia?