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