PHILOSOPHER

Karel Kosík

1926 - 2003

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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 60,037 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Karel Kosík is the 826th most popular philosopher (down from 807th in 2019), the 315th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 306th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Czech Philosopher.

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  • 60.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Karel Kosík ranks 826 out of 1,267. Before him are Cheng Hao, Nemesius, Karl Vogt, Ted Nelson, John Italus, and Kumārila Bhaṭṭa. After him are Favorinus, Aleksey Khomyakov, George of Trebizond, Hermippus of Smyrna, Susanne Langer, and Wonhyo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Karel Kosík ranks 169. Before him are Claudio Villa, Juan Hohberg, Jorge Medina, Paolo Magnani, Konstantin Feoktistov, and Georgi Lozanov. After him are Mieczysław Rakowski, Jeffrey Hunter, Sonja Ziemann, Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro, Lou Ottens, and Dennis W. Sciama. Among people deceased in 2003, Karel Kosík ranks 123. Before him are Mario Merz, Fred Rogers, Guido Crepax, Constantin Dăscălescu, Alejandro de Tomaso, and Michel Constantin. After him are Rachel Kempson, Mongo Santamaría, Rie Mastenbroek, Herma Bauma, Goffredo Petrassi, and Isao Iwabuchi.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Karel Kosík ranks 315 out of 1,200. Before him are Karl Fritzsch (1903), Artur London (1915), Karel Jaromír Erben (1811), Petr Brandl (1668), Mirek Topolánek (1956), and Anna Chromý (1940). After him are Victor Kugler (1900), Margrave Andrew of Burgau (1558), Marta Kubišová (1942), Christian Mayer (1719), Milan Baroš (1981), and Karel Poborský (1972).

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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), Jan Patočka (1907), and Vilém Flusser (1920). After him are Theodor Gomperz (1832), František Tomášek (1899), Tomáš Halík (1948), Herbert Feigl (1902), Egon Bondy (1930), and Ernst Tugendhat (1930).

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