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PHILOSOPHER

Vilém Flusser

1920 - 1991

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Vilém Flusser (May 12, 1920 – November 27, 1991) was a Czech-born Brazilian philosopher, writer and journalist. He lived for a long period in São Paulo (where he became a Brazilian citizen) and later in France, and his works are written in many different languages. His early work was marked by discussion of the thought of Martin Heidegger, and by the influence of existentialism and phenomenology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vilém Flusser has received more than 236,287 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Vilém Flusser is the 534th most popular philosopher (down from 530th in 2019), the 178th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 171st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Czech Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Vilém Flusser ranks 534 out of 1,081Before him are Chaïm Perelman, Crates of Mallus, Georg Henrik von Wright, Marpa Lotsawa, Berengar of Tours, and Charles W. Morris. After him are Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, Myson of Chenae, Myia, Jonathan Edwards, Conrad Celtes, and Eugen Fink.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Vilém Flusser ranks 88Before him are Ovadia Yosef, Victor Turner, Henri Verneuil, José Mauro de Vasconcelos, Henry Heimlich, and Karl Albrecht. After him are Chiara Lubich, Edmond H. Fischer, Mehdi Ben Barka, Marcial Maciel, Gottfried Böhm, and P. D. James. Among people deceased in 1991, Vilém Flusser ranks 62Before him are Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Alfonso García Robles, Aladár Gerevich, Sergey Akhromeyev, Demetrios I of Constantinople, and Boris Pugo. After him are William Heinesen, Shapour Bakhtiar, Willi Boskovsky, Jean Arthur, Christian de Castries, and Joachim Kroll.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Vilém Flusser ranks 178 out of 973Before him are Julius von Payer (1841), Zdeněk Fibich (1850), Jerzy Buzek (1940), Margaret of Bohemia, Queen of Hungary (1335), Victor Adler (1852), and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830). After him are Hans-Adam I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1662), Tomáš Baťa (1876), Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739), Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg (1800), Catherine of Bohemia (1342), and Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (1849).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Czechia

Among philosophers born in Czechia, Vilém Flusser ranks 7Before him are John Amos Comenius (1592), Edmund Husserl (1859), Hans Kelsen (1881), Karl Kautsky (1854), Bernard Bolzano (1781), and Jerome of Prague (1379). After him are Jan Patočka (1907), Karel Kosík (1926), František Tomášek (1899), Tomáš Halík (1948), Egon Bondy (1930), and Ladislav Klíma (1878).