About Gajo Petrović
Lived 1927 – 1993 (aged 66). Gajo Petrović was a Croatian philosopher and university teacher.
Major works Engleska empiristička filozofija. Odabrani tekstovi filozofa (The English Empiricist Philosophy) (1955) The Philosophical Views of G. V. Plekhanov (1957) Logic (1964). [Ital. transl. Logica per la III classe dei ginnasi, 1968] Od Lockea do Ayera. (From Locke to Ayer) (1964) Philosophy and Marxism (1965) (published in English under the title Marx in the Mid-Twentieth Century: A Yugoslav Philosopher Considers Karl Marx's Writings (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1967) The Possibility of Man (1969) Philosophy and Revolution (1971) Why Praxis (1972) The Thought of Revolution (1978) Marx and the Marxists (1986) U potrazi za slobodom: povijesno-filozofski ogledi (In Quest of Liberty) (1990)
Legacy In 2001, a collection of articles in his honour were published in Zagreb, entitled The Reality and the Criticism.
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Who was Gajo Petrović?
Croatian philosopher (1927-1993)
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Gajo Petrović was born on 12 March 1927 in Karlovac.
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Gajo Petrović died on 13 June 1993 in Zagreb.
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Gajo Petrović was a philosopher and university teacher.
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Gajo Petrović was Croatian.
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