PHILOSOPHER

Nicos Poulantzas

1936 - 1979

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Nicos Poulantzas (Greek: Νίκος Πουλαντζάς [ˈnikos pulanˈd͡zas]; 21 September 1936 – 3 October 1979) was a Greek-French Marxist political sociologist and philosopher. In the 1970s, Poulantzas was known, along with Louis Althusser, as a leading structural Marxist; while at first a Leninist, he eventually became a proponent of the "democratic road to socialism." He is best known for his theoretical work on the state, but he also offered Marxist contributions to the analysis of fascism, social class in the contemporary world, and the collapse of dictatorships in Southern Europe in the 1970s, such as Francisco Franco's rule in Spain, António de Oliveira Salazar's in Portugal, and Georgios Papadopoulos' in Greece. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicos Poulantzas is the 574th most popular philosopher (down from 557th in 2019), the 350th most popular biography from Greece (down from 333rd in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Greek Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Nicos Poulantzas ranks 574 out of 1,267. Before him are Hu Shih, Philipp Mainländer, Nancy Fraser, Agrippa the Skeptic, Antonio Labriola, and Jean-Marie Guyau. After him are Étienne-Gabriel Morelly, María Zambrano, Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, Alan Watts, Pierre Charron, and Zeno of Sidon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Nicos Poulantzas ranks 117. Before him are Jean M. Auel, Alan Alda, Didier Ratsiraka, James Harrison, Yuan T. Lee, and William Levada. After him are Duncan Edwards, Wilfried Martens, Claude Brasseur, A. B. Yehoshua, Don DeLillo, and Trần Đức Lương. Among people deceased in 1979, Nicos Poulantzas ranks 61. Before him are Charles W. Morris, Walther Gerlach, Pier Luigi Nervi, Michael Wilding, Rudi Dutschke, and Heinz Reinefarth. After him are Nereo Rocco, Konstantin Simonov, Yuen Siu-tien, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, Ali Hassan Salameh, and Gustavo Díaz Ordaz.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Nicos Poulantzas ranks 350 out of 1,024. Before him are Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus (-200), Ali Rıza Efendi (1839), Leonidas of Rhodes (-200), Dinocrates (-400), Nikolaos Gyzis (1842), and Conon (-401). After him are Michael Glykas (1125), Callimachus (-600), Diagoras of Melos (-450), Zoilus (-400), Laonikos Chalkokondyles (1423), and Perictione (-500).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Greece

Among philosophers born in Greece, Nicos Poulantzas ranks 42. Before him are Timon of Phlius (-320), Eudemus of Rhodes (-370), Phaedo of Elis (-401), Anaxarchus (-380), Polemon (-400), and Crates of Athens (-400). After him are Zoilus (-400), Cebes (-500), Aeschines of Sphettus (-430), Aristo of Chios (-300), Onesicritus (-360), and Menedemus (-340).

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