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In a conversation de profundis, Costas Axelos speaks about man and society, love and philosophy, life and death. The publication includes an extensive curriculum vitae of the influential intellectual, a full bibliography of his works in Greek, photographs and a manuscript.

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    “Live your life impulsively and prepare yourself calmly for death. Be ready to die at any moment. With unfulfilled desires.”
    Costas Axelos

    The Broken Game – The last interview of Costas Axelos, published by Kapon Editions, is a unique document, a collector’s book, by Giorgos Douatzis on the great Greek philosopher Costas Axelos.

    The publication includes Costas Axelos’s last interview, an extensive curriculum vita, a full bibliography in Greek, photographs and a manuscript of the important thinker. In his introduction to the book, Giorgos Douatzis wanders between the echo of the ‘game of the world’ and ‘poeticness’, concepts that are critical components of Costas Axelos’s thought.

    In the postface, Professor of Comparative Philosophy and Religion Marios Megzos summarizes Costas Axelos’s philosophical precepts.

    The book presents a rich and rare picture of the views, the oeuvre and the life of this highly influential Greek intellectual. It contains the full text of his last interview, which he gave to Giorgos Douatzis a few months before his death on 4 February 2010, at the age of eighty-six. Costas Axelos posits his perspective on issues of crucial significance, such as society, man, love, death …. He speaks even about matters relating to his personal life, revealing facets of his personality. His words stimulate the mind of every thinking person.

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    Weight 150 g
    Dimensions 12,2 × 22,2 cm
    Pages 80
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  • Publication Date
    NOVEMBER 2011
  • Author
    • GEORGE DOUATZIS

      George Douatzis made his literary debut in 1971, in the ‘Poetry Anthology of the New Greek Generation’, Agyra Publications, and entered journalism in 1974, on the staff of the newspaper Ta Nea. He has worked in all genres of mass media (newspapers, periodicals, radio, television) at all levels (reporter to director). He studied Economics at the Advanced School of Industry in Thessaloniki, and Sociology at the University VIII of Paris. He is the author of 14 books: 1. ‘Writings’ (1976), 2. ‘Local Government’ (1986), 3. ‘The Little Things’ (1996), 4. ‘Select Anthology of Tassos Leivaditis’ (1997), 5. ‘Epistle to Ten’ (2001), 6. ‘Epistle to Ten – The Undelivered’ (2003), 7. ‘Libations’ (2004), 8. ‘The Little Things II’ (2004), 9. ‘The Red Shoes’ (2004), 10. ‘The Button’ (2004), 11. ‘Discourse on Drawing’ (collective, drawings by Michael Amarantos) (2006), 12. ‘Don’t leave Mr Efchetis’ (2008), 13. ‘Conversation with the Night Visitor’ (collective and editor) (2008), 14. ‘On Journalism’ – 2010. In press: ‘Homeland of the Times’, ‘Rafts’. His photographs have been exhibited in Athens, in the galleries ‘Eikastikos Kyklos’ (collective) 2007, and ‘Angathi’ (personal) 2008.

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GIORGOS DOUATZIS

The broken game
Costas Axelos’s last interview

9,54€

In a conversation de profundis, Costas Axelos speaks about man and society, love and philosophy, life and death. The publication includes an extensive curriculum vitae of the influential intellectual, a full bibliography of his works in Greek, photographs and a manuscript.

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