Yiorgos Veltsos ( gr, Γιώργος Βέλτσος; born October 1944

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) is a Greek philosopher, author, poet, and former academic professor.

Biography

Veltsos was born in Athens, Greece. He studied Law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and received his

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in Political Sociology from the University of Vincennes in Saint-Denis.George Veltsos
National Center for Books, Greece From 1975 onward, Veltsos taught

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at the

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in Athens, where he became associate professor in 1980, and professor of Sociology in 1985. A collection of Veltsos's theatrical works have been published in French with a foreword by

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. Selections of his poetry have been translated into English, French and German. In his discussions of

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s and ideology, he often took a

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point of view. Over the years, and since the 1970s, Veltsos has written as a guest columnist on various subjects, including travel or food, mainly in the daily newspaper '' Ta Nea''. In the 1990s, he initiated and was featured in a series of interviews with European philosophers, such as

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, for state television in Greece. In 2012, Veltsos was named '' chevalier des Arts et des Lettres'' by the French state.Georges Veltsos, chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
Embassy of France in Greece, 24 October 2012 (in French)

Selected bibliography

*''Skia/Shadow'', Athens: Indiktos 2004, 149pp, (in English) *''Humus. Camera degli sposi'', Athènes: Institut Français d'Athènes, 2000, 163pp, (in French)

In Greek

*' (''Sociology of Institutions: The Institutional Logos and Power''), 1977 *' (''Sociology of Institutions: Family and Imaginary Relations''), 1979 *' (''The Monstrous Side''), 1985 *' (''To Cornelius Castoriadis''), 1989 *' (''The Prototype has been Lost''), 2001 *'' 1993–2005'' (''Poems 1993–2005''), 2006 *' (''Dream Protocols''), 2013

References

External links

''Magda Goebbels'' by George Veltsos
National Theatre of Greece {{DEFAULTSORT:Veltsos, Yiorgos 1944 births Politicians from Athens 20th-century Greek philosophers University of Paris alumni Living people Academic staff of Panteion University