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Race theorist bell hooks (uncapitalized) is also almost on par with Aristotle (and twice Homer, or six times Virgil) while figures like Adorno vastly outstrip Augustine.
But it's not all post-modern. Sam Harris, Stephen Pinker, and Richard Dawkins also mog Augustine, Boethius, or Aquinas (and Homer)
The call for diversity has not resulted in figures like Avicenna, Averoese, Al Farabi, Laozi, Shankara, Nagarjuna, etc. being widely assigned. The Islamics and Hindus in particular are barely read. And while there is a robust space of Buddhist retreats and academies, and some other Eastern ones, no contemplative spaces for Western thought and praxis exist outside Christian ones (almost wholly Catholic and Orthodox).
The Western tradition is dead in the West. The key liberals all outstrip Aristotle, and even Rawls has pulled close. But anyone outside of Plato and Aristotle (often reread as ironic or empiricist) from the tradition before Descartes simply isn't read.