Kostas Axelos

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Kostas Axelos ( Greek Κώστας Αξελός ; born June 26, 1924 in Athens , † February 4, 2010 in Paris ) was a Greek philosopher who taught in France .

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Axelos grew up in his hometown and attended the French and German schools in Athens . He then enrolled in law and economics one interrupted the study but to during the Second World War in the ELAS to fight against the German occupation of Greece. As a journalist, he was a supporter of the Communist Party of Greece (1941–1945) during the Greek Civil War . He was later expelled from the Communist Party and sentenced to death by the conservative government of Greece. He was able to escape from custody.

At the end of December 1945 Axelos came into exile on the refugee ship Mataroa in Paris , France, where he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne . From 1950 to 1957 he worked as a researcher at the CNRS , where he wrote his dissertation. Then he taught at the École pratique des hautes études . Between 1962 and 1973 he taught philosophy at the Sorbonne, from which he left to devote himself fully to his philosophical work. His dissertation Marx, penseur de la technique (German as an introduction to future thinking: About Marx and Heidegger ) attempted an analysis of modern technology based on the thoughts of Martin Heidegger and Karl Marx . In addition to Herbert Marcuse's major work The One-Dimensional Man, she influenced the student movement of 1968. Axelos was involved in the translation of important works by Heidegger and Georg Lukács into French.

Axelos was a collaborator and most recently editor of Arguments magazine (1956–1962). His main works have been published in French and some have also been translated into English and German. He was honored with honorary doctorates from the Universities of Thessaloniki (2009) and Ioannina for his studies .

Fonts (selection)

  • Marx, penseur de la technique , Paris, UGE / Les Éditions de Minuit, 1961 (also in German).
  • Héraclite et la philosophy , 1962.
  • Arguments d'une recherche , Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1963.
  • Vers la pensée planétaire , Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1964.
  • Le Jeu du monde , Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1969 (German under the title Das Spiel der Welt )
  • Pour une éthiqueproblemématique , Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1972.
  • Entretiens , Paris, Scholies / Fata Morgana, 1973.
  • Horizons du monde , Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1974.
  • Contribution à la logique , Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1977.
  • Problèmes de l'enjeu , Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1979.
  • Systématique ouverte , Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1984.
  • Métamorphoses , 1991.
  • L'errance érotique , 1992.
  • Lettres à un jeune penseur , Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1996.
  • Notices autobiographiques , 1997.
  • Ce questionnement , Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, 2001
  • Réponses énigmatiques , Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, 2005.
  • Ce qui advient. Fragments d'une approche , Paris, Les Belles-Lettres, 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b INTERVIEW: Kostas Axelos; Mondialisation without the world (English). Archived from the original on January 17, 2006 ; accessed on May 6, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Kostas Axelos . Editions de Minuit. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Axelos, Kostas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Αξελός, Κώστας (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens , Greece
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 2010
Place of death Paris , France