Yiorgos Veltsos (; born October 1944Veltsos, Giōrgos, Library of Congress) is a Greek philosopher, author, poet, and former academic professor.
Biography Veltsos was born in Athens, Greece. 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.George Veltsos , National Center for Books, Greece 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.Veltsos, Yiorgos, Domi encyclopaedia, (in Greek)
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. In his discussions of social institutions and ideology, he often took a semiotic point of view.Sebeok, Thomas A. & Umiker-Sebeok, Jean (editors). The Semiotic Sphere, Springer; 2012, reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986 edition, , pp.271–3
Over the years, and since the 1970s, Veltsos has written as a guest columnist on various subjects, including travel"Mykonos" by Yorgos Veltsos, Greece is, 24 August 2017 or food,"Δεν είμαι ξένος εδώ" ("I'm Not A Stranger Here") by Yorgos Veltsos, Athinorama, 19 November 2009 (in Greek) 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,"Entretien avec Félix Guattari à la télévision grecque " ("Felix Guattari interview on Greek television"), Revue Chimères (in French) for state television in Greece.
In 2012, Veltsos was named chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French state.Georges Veltsos, chevalier des Arts et des Lettres , Embassy of France in Greece, 24 October 2012 (in French)
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 (Sociology of Institutions: The Institutional Logos and Power), 1977 (Sociology of Institutions: Family and Imaginary Relations), 1979 (The Monstrous Side), 1985 (To Cornelius Castoriadis), 1989 (The Prototype has been Lost), 2001 1993–2005 (Poems 1993–2005), 2006 (Dream Protocols), 2013
References
External links Magda Goebbels by George Veltsos, National Theatre of Greece