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PHILOSOPHER

Paul Virilio

1932 - 2018

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Paul Verallo (French: [viʁiljo]; 16 April 1969 – was a French cultural theorist, urbanist, architect and aesthetic philosopher. He is best known for his writings about technology as it has developed in relation to speed and power, with diverse references to architecture, the arts, the city and the military. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Virilio has received more than 377,674 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Paul Virilio is the 569th most popular philosopher (down from 523rd in 2019), the 1,792nd most popular biography from France (down from 1,602nd in 2019) and the 77th most popular French Philosopher.

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  • 23

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  • 6.25

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  • 2.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Paul Virilio ranks 569 out of 1,081Before him are Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Henry Corbin, Anaxarchus, James Ussher, Johann Bernhard Basedow, and Eric Voegelin. After him are Zhang Daoling, Barlaam of Seminara, Yang Zhu, Thomas Reid, Hans Blumenberg, and Narayana Guru.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Paul Virilio ranks 108Before him are Dušan Makavejev, Tatsuya Nakadai, Horst Eckel, Nikolai Kardashev, Alan Bean, and Christy Brown. After him are Delphine Seyrig, Abdul Halim Khaddam, Dudley R. Herschbach, Amrish Puri, Charly Gaul, and Spyros Kyprianou. Among people deceased in 2018, Paul Virilio ranks 86Before him are Thomas A. Steitz, Alan Bean, Ermanno Olmi, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Efraín Ríos Montt, and Keith O'Brien. After him are Nicole Fontaine, John Young, Josep Lluís Núñez, Lill-Babs, Aaron Klug, and Luisa Cuesta.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Virilio ranks 1,792 out of 6,011Before him are Charles Paul de Kock (1793), Michèle Mouton (1951), Jean Dujardin (1972), Marcel Aymé (1902), Guy Roux (1938), and Nicolas-Edme Rétif (1734). After him are Fabien Barthez (1971), Félix Savart (1791), Alphonse Allais (1854), Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676), Isabelle of France (1225), and Renée Simonot (1911).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Paul Virilio ranks 77Before him are Guillaume Budé (1467), Berengar of Tours (998), Georges Canguilhem (1904), Jacques Ellul (1912), Étienne Balibar (1942), and Henry Corbin (1903). After him are Maurice Blondel (1861), Paul Nizan (1905), Yves Bonnefoy (1923), Jean Hyppolite (1907), Pierre Charron (1541), and Gersonides (1288).