PHILOSOPHER

Karel Kosík

1926 - 2003

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Karel Kosík (Czech: [ˈkosiːk]; 26 June 1926 – 21 February 2003) was a Czech Marxist philosopher. In his most famous philosophical work, Dialectics of the Concrete (1963), Kosík presents an original reinterpretation of the ideas of Karl Marx in light of Martin Heidegger's phenomenology. His later essays can be called a sharp critique of the modern society from a leftist but not strictly Marxist position. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karel Kosík is the 820th most popular philosopher (up from 826th in 2019), the 312th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 315th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Czech Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Karel Kosík ranks 820 out of 1,267Before him are Volin, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Florian Znaniecki, Bernard Williams, Gilbert de la Porrée, and Vazgen I. After him are Paul de Lagarde, Francisco Sanches, Hecataeus of Abdera, George of Trebizond, Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, and John Italus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Karel Kosík ranks 174Before him are John Derek, Peter G. Peterson, Jean Peters, William Wakefield Baum, Rehavam Ze'evi, and Raif Dizdarević. After him are Irene Camber, Kees Rijvers, Lou Ottens, Vicente Aranda, Jaba Ioseliani, and Paul Janssen. Among people deceased in 2003, Karel Kosík ranks 114Before him are Daishiro Yoshimura, Vasil Bykaŭ, Fred Rogers, Mohammed Dib, Bernard Williams, and Foday Sankoh. After him are Martha Chase, Constantin Dăscălescu, Lothar Emmerich, Johanna Budwig, Rachel Kempson, and Jaba Ioseliani.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Karel Kosík ranks 312 out of 1,200Before him are Catherine of Poděbrady (1449), Gorazd (1879), Wenceslaus II, Duke of Bohemia (1137), Paul Wranitzky (1756), Georg Flegel (1566), and Toyen (1902). After him are Alois Jirásek (1851), Miloslav Vlk (1932), Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria (1863), Václav Nedomanský (1944), Procopius of Sázava (970), and Zdislava Berka (1215).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Czechia

Among philosophers born in Czechia, Karel Kosík ranks 9Before him are Hans Kelsen (1881), Bernard Bolzano (1781), Karl Kautsky (1854), Jerome of Prague (1379), Jan Patočka (1907), and Vilém Flusser (1920). After him are František Tomášek (1899), Tomáš Halík (1948), Theodor Gomperz (1832), Herbert Feigl (1902), Ernst Tugendhat (1930), and Ladislav Klíma (1878).