New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

PHILOSOPHER

Karel Kosík

1926 - 2003

Photo of Karel Kosík

Icon of person Karel Kosík

Karel Kosík (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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karel Kosík has received more than 54,818 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Karel Kosík is the 807th most popular philosopher (down from 802nd in 2019), the 306th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 294th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Czech Philosopher.

Memorability Metrics

  • 55k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Karel Kosíks by language


Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Karel Kosík ranks 807 out of 1,081. Before him are Mortimer J. Adler, Hans Albert, David the Invincible, Ferdinand Christian Baur, Anandamayi Ma, and Yuriy Drohobych. After him are Tao Hongjing, Franz Neumann, Aedesia, Karl Vogt, Paolo Sarpi, and Joseph Dietzgen.

Most Popular Philosophers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Karel Kosík ranks 165. Before him are John G. Kemeny, Muhammad al-Badr, Richard Anderson, Judith Malina, Anne McCaffrey, and Mahasweta Devi. After him are Choi Eun-hee, Jambyn Batmönkh, Claudio Villa, Konstantin Feoktistov, James Hillman, and David C. H. Austin. Among people deceased in 2003, Karel Kosík ranks 114. Before him are Charles Berlitz, Kerim Kerimov, Gordon Mitchell, Howard Fast, Robert Palmer, and Mongo Santamaría. After him are Tadao Horie, Guido Crepax, Rachel Kempson, Alejandro de Tomaso, Michel Constantin, and Julinho.

Others Born in 1926

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 2003

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Karel Kosík ranks 306 out of 973. Before him are Károly Khuen-Héderváry (1849), Anton Schindler (1795), Joseph von Sonnenfels (1732), Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859), Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656), and Maria Restituta Kafka (1894). After him are Oskar Nedbal (1874), Miloslav Vlk (1932), Adolf Scherer (1938), Antonín Mrkos (1918), Judith of Bohemia (1056), and Jan Mukařovský (1891).

Others born in Czechia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Czechia

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

Czech born Philosophers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • DatawheelCL