Boris Groys

Tags: Philosopher.

Boris Efimovich Groys (born 19 March 1947) is an art critic media theorist and philosopher. He is currently a Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University and Senior Research Fellow at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe Germany.

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birth date

1947-03-19

birth place

Berlin

era

Contemporary philosophy

influenced by

Aristotle, Edmund Husserl, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Lacan, Plato, Søren Kierkegaard, Alexandre Kojève, Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher), Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin

main interest

Aesthetics, Ethics, Political philosophy, Religion

philosophicalSchool

Continental philosophy