Yiorgos Veltsos
Yiorgos Veltsos (Greek: Γιώργος Βέλτσος; born October 1944[1]) is a Greek philosopher, author, poet, and former academic professor.
Biography
[edit]Veltsos was born in Athens, Greece.[1] He studied Law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and received his doctoral degree in Political Sociology from the University of Vincennes in Saint-Denis.[2] From 1975 onward, Veltsos taught communication theory at the Panteion University in Athens, where he became associate professor in 1980, and professor of Sociology in 1985.[3]
A collection of Veltsos's theatrical works have been published in French with a foreword by Jacques Derrida. Selections of his poetry have been translated into English, French and German.[1] In his discussions of social institutions and ideology, he often took a semiotic point of view.[4]
Over the years, and since the 1970s, Veltsos has written as a guest columnist on various subjects, including travel[5] or food,[6] mainly in the daily newspaper Ta Nea. In the 1990s, he initiated and was featured in a series of interviews with European philosophers, such as Felix Guattari,[7] for state television in Greece.
In 2012, Veltsos was named chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French state.[8]
Selected bibliography
[edit]- Skia/Shadow, Athens: Indiktos 2004, 149pp, ISBN 960-518-187-8 (in English)
- Humus. Camera degli sposi, Athènes: Institut Français d'Athènes, 2000, 163pp, ISBN 960-8473-29-2 (in French)
In Greek
[edit]- Κοινωνιολογία των θεσμών Ι – Ο θεσμικός λόγος και η εξουσία (Sociology of Institutions: The Institutional Logos and Power), 1977
- Κοινωνιολογία των θεσμών ΙΙ – Οικογένεια και φαντασιακές σχέσεις (Sociology of Institutions: Family and Imaginary Relations), 1979
- Η τερατώδης πλευρά (The Monstrous Side), 1985
- Προς τον Κορνήλιο Καστοριάδη (To Cornelius Castoriadis), 1989
- Το πρωτότυπο έχει χαθεί (The Prototype has been Lost), 2001
- Ποιήματα 1993–2005 (Poems 1993–2005), 2006
- Πρωτόκολλα ονείρων (Dream Protocols), 2013
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Veltsos, Giōrgos, Library of Congress
- ^ George Veltsos, National Center for Books, Greece
- ^ Veltsos, Yiorgos, Domi encyclopaedia, (in Greek)
- ^ Sebeok, Thomas A. & Umiker-Sebeok, Jean (editors). The Semiotic Sphere, Springer; 2012, reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986 edition, ISBN 978-1475702071, pp.271–3
- ^ "Mykonos" by Yorgos Veltsos, Greece is, 24 August 2017
- ^ "Δεν είμαι ξένος εδώ" ("I'm Not A Stranger Here") by Yorgos Veltsos, Athinorama, 19 November 2009 (in Greek)
- ^ "Entretien avec Félix Guattari à la télévision grecque" ("Felix Guattari interview on Greek television"), Revue Chimères (in French)
- ^ Georges Veltsos, chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Embassy of France in Greece, 24 October 2012 (in French)
