PHILOSOPHER

Karl Korsch

1886 - 1961

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Karl Korsch (German: [ˈkaɐ̯l ˈkɔɐ̯ʃ]; August 15, 1886 – October 21, 1961) was a German Marxist theoretician and political philosopher. He is recognized as one of the "dissidents" that challenged the Marxism of the Second International of Karl Kautsky, Georgi Plekhanov and Lenin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Korsch has received more than 185,245 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Karl Korsch is the 540th most popular philosopher (down from 513th in 2019), the 1,494th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,464th in 2019) and the 71st most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Karl Korsch ranks 540 out of 1,267. Before him are Polemon, Émile Boirac, Georges Canguilhem, Zeno of Sidon, Pietro d'Abano, and Paul Grice. After him are Chaïm Perelman, Axel Honneth, Kenneth Waltz, Al-Baydawi, Jan Patočka, and Myia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Karl Korsch ranks 60. Before him are Raymond A. Spruance, Georg Stumme, Rex Stout, Raoul Hausmann, Frank Lloyd, and Gyula Gömbös. After him are Nikolay Gumilyov, Sessue Hayakawa, Werner Kempf, Hugh Lofting, Mary Wigman, and Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière. Among people deceased in 1961, Karl Korsch ranks 30. Before him are Akiba Rubinstein, Blaise Cendrars, Arthur Drewry, Wolfgang von Trips, Eero Saarinen, and Mukhtar Auezov. After him are Zoltán Tildy, Maria Valtorta, Paul Wittgenstein, Princess Isabelle of Orléans, Mei Lanfang, and Werner Jaeger.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Korsch ranks 1,494 out of 7,253. Before him are Adolf Eugen Fick (1829), Princess Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach (1682), Richard Z. Kruspe (1967), Hermine Reuss of Greiz (1887), Rupert of Salzburg (650), and Else Lasker-Schüler (1869). After him are Wolf Biermann (1936), Margravine Louise Charlotte of Brandenburg (1617), Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1818), Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1572), Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden (1763), and Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1530).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Karl Korsch ranks 71. Before him are Hermann Lotze (1817), Karl Löwith (1897), Annemarie Schimmel (1922), Eduard Spranger (1882), Hans Blumenberg (1920), and Hans Vaihinger (1852). After him are Axel Honneth (1949), Eric Voegelin (1901), Andreas Karlstadt (1486), Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723), Ludwig Büchner (1824), and Conrad Celtes (1459).

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