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Vilém Flusser

1920 - 1991

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Vilém Flusser (May 12, 1920 – November 27, 1991) was a Czech-born Brazilian philosopher, writer and journalist. He lived for a long period in São Paulo (where he became a Brazilian citizen) and later in France, and his works are written in many different languages. His early work was marked by discussion of the thought of Martin Heidegger, and by the influence of existentialism and phenomenology. Phenomenology would play a major role in the transition to the later phase of his work, in which he turned his attention to the philosophy of communication and of artistic production. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vilém Flusser is the 594th most popular philosopher (up from 620th in 2019), the 208th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 206th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Czech Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Vilém Flusser ranks 594 out of 1,267. Before him are Yang Zhu, Zaleucus, G. A. Cohen, Tom Regan, Jean Hyppolite, and Werner Jaeger. After him are Hans Blumenberg, Byung-Chul Han, David Hartley, Zoilus, Constantin von Tischendorf, and Jonathan Edwards.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Vilém Flusser ranks 103. Before him are Constanze Manziarly, Henri Verneuil, Roberto Calvi, Gottfried Böhm, Eileen Chang, and Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy. After him are Hans Blumenberg, Tom of Finland, Victor Turner, Bruno Maderna, Väinö Linna, and Peggy Lee. Among people deceased in 1991, Vilém Flusser ranks 67. Before him are Shapour Bakhtiar, Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, Aladár Gerevich, Robert Maxwell, María Zambrano, and Boris Pugo. After him are Willi Boskovsky, Tom of Finland, Ralph Bellamy, Sergey Akhromeyev, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, and Gene Roddenberry.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Vilém Flusser ranks 208 out of 1,200. Before him are John Henry, Margrave of Moravia (1322), Zdeněk Fibich (1850), Josef Koudelka (1938), Jindřich Matyáš Thurn (1567), Jaroslav Drobný (1921), and Martin of Opava (1300). After him are Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830), Jiří Trnka (1912), Antonín Puč (1907), Leopold Koželuch (1747), Sigfried Held (1942), and Jerzy Buzek (1940).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Czechia

Among philosophers born in Czechia, Vilém Flusser ranks 8. Before him are Edmund Husserl (1859), Hans Kelsen (1881), Bernard Bolzano (1781), Karl Kautsky (1854), Jerome of Prague (1379), and Jan Patočka (1907). After him are Karel Kosík (1926), František Tomášek (1899), Tomáš Halík (1948), Theodor Gomperz (1832), Herbert Feigl (1902), and Ernst Tugendhat (1930).

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