Philosopher

Gajo Petrović

Overview

Gajo Petrović (Serbian: Гајо Петровић; 12 March 1927 – 13 June 1993) was one of the main theorists in the Marxist humanist Praxis School in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He was one of the founders and editors of the Praxis journal, which was published from 1964 to 1974. He is credited by Milan Kangrga to be the mastermind behind the Korčula Summer School, which was a meeting place for Marxists and other philosophers from the East and the West in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Philosophers who discussed Gajo Petrović

• Predrag Vranicki

Ideas Gajo Petrović discusses

• Philosophy
• Joseph Stalin
• Karl Marx
• Marxism
• Soviet Union
• Yugoslavia
• Martin Heidegger
• Marxist humanism
• Georgi Plekhanov
• Logic
• Zagreb
• Edmund Husserl
• University of Zagreb
• Milan Kangrga

Place in the tradition

Part of Yugoslav philosophy.

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