Tran Duc Thao

In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Trần, but is often simplified to Tran in English-language text. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Thảo.
Trần Đức Thảo
Born26 September 1917
Thái Bình, Tonkin French Indochina
DiedApril 24, 1993(1993-04-24) (aged 75)
Paris, France

Trần Đức Thảo (26 September 1917 – 24 April 1993) was a Vietnamese philosopher. His work (written primarily in French) attempted to unite phenomenology with Marxist philosophy. His work had some currency in France in the 1950s and 1960s, and was cited favorably by Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard and Louis Althusser.

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