Yiorgos Veltsos Explained

Yiorgos Veltsos (Γιώργος Βέλτσος; born October 1944^[1]) is a Greek philosopher, author, poet, and former academic professor.

Biography

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

• Skia/Shadow, Athens: Indiktos 2004, 149pp, (in English)
• Humus. Camera degli sposi, Athènes: Institut Français d'Athènes, 2000, 163pp, (in French)

In Greek

• Greek, Modern (1453-);: Κοινωνιολογία των θεσμών Ι – Ο θεσμικός λόγος και η εξουσία (Sociology of Institutions: The Institutional Logos and Power), 1977
• Greek, Modern (1453-);: Κοινωνιολογία των θεσμών ΙΙ – Οικογένεια και φαντασιακές σχέσεις (Sociology of Institutions: Family and Imaginary Relations), 1979
• Greek, Modern (1453-);: Η τερατώδης πλευρά (The Monstrous Side), 1985
• Greek, Modern (1453-);: Προς τον Κορνήλιο Καστοριάδη (To Cornelius Castoriadis), 1989
• Greek, Modern (1453-);: Το πρωτότυπο έχει χαθεί (The Prototype has been Lost), 2001
• Greek, Modern (1453-);: Ποιήματα 1993–2005 (Poems 1993–2005), 2006
• Greek, Modern (1453-);: Πρωτόκολλα ονείρων (Dream Protocols), 2013

External links

• Magda Goebbels by George Veltsos, National Theatre of Greece

Notes and References

1. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91089611.html Veltsos, Giōrgos
2. http://www.ekebi.gr/frontoffice/portal.asp?cpage=NODE&cnode=436&pe=187 George Veltsos
3. http://www.ygeiaonline.gr/component/k2/item/12312-beltsos_gevrgios Veltsos, Yiorgos
4. Sebeok, Thomas A. & Umiker-Sebeok, Jean (editors). The Semiotic Sphere, Springer; 2012, reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986 edition,, pp.271–3
5. "Mykonos" by Yorgos Veltsos, Greece is, 24 August 2017
6. "Δεν είμαι ξένος εδώ" ("I'm Not A Stranger Here") by Yorgos Veltsos, Athinorama, 19 November 2009 (in Greek)
7. "Entretien avec Félix Guattari à la télévision grecque" ("Felix Guattari interview on Greek television"), Revue Chimères (in French)
8. https://gr.ambafrance.org/Georges-Veltsos-chevalier-des-Arts-et-des-Lettres Georges Veltsos, chevalier des Arts et des Lettres