Garbis Kortian (Armenian: Կարպիս Գորդեան; February 15, 1938 – August 23, 2009) was a philosopher and political theorist.[1]

Kortian was born to an Armenian family in Kessab, Mandatory Syria on February 15, 1938.[2] He acquired his PhD in philosophy from the University of Vienna in 1966; his dissertation was on Wilhelm von Humboldt.[1] Kortian taught at Université de Montréal from 1968 to 1995 and, sporadically, at UC Berkeley, McGill University, Université Laval, Balliol College, Oxford, and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.[3] He was one of the founders of the Zoryan Institute, a non-profit organization based in Toronto, Canada. He died in Vienna, Austria.[4] He spoke Armenian, French, German, and English. His philosophical work was mostly written in French and German.[1] He was married with 2 children.[3]

Kortian was deeply influenced by Max Weber.[1] He is best known for his 1979 book Métacritique, originally published in French and published in English in 1980 by Cambridge University Press.[5] The book is expository in its content and shows that the meta-epistemology of Jürgen Habermas originated in German idealism, especially from Hegel's critique of Kant, and from Marx's critique of Hegel. Kortian also wanted to introduce it in contrast with positivist philosophy. The book is a reconstruction of Habermas's statement elaborated in his 1968 book Knowledge and Human Interests.[6][7] The book was praised by Gillian Rose.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Descombes, Vincent (2010). "Garbis Kortian (1939-2009)". Po&sie (in French). 131–132 (1–2): 13–17.
  2. ↑ "Disparitions" (PDF). Bulletin de l'ACAM (in French). Association Culturelle Arménienne de Marne-la-Vallée (France). p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 November 2018.
  3. 1 2 Piché, Claude (15 October 2009). "Garbis Kortian". aprum.umontreal.ca (in French). Association des Professeures et Professeurs Retraités de l'Université de Montréal. Archived from the original on 22 November 2018.
  4. ↑ "Obituary: Garbis Kortian". Armenian Weekly. 31 August 2009. Archived from the original on 22 November 2018.
  5. ↑ Kortian, Garbis (1980). Metacritique: The Philosophical Argument of Jurgen Habermas. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-29618-2.
  6. ↑ Rapaczynski, Andrzej (1983). "Reviewed Works: Metacritique: The Philosophical Argument of Jürgen Habermas. by Garbis Kortian; The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School by Raymond Geuss; Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas by David Held". Ethics. 93 (4): 811–812. doi:10.1086/292502. JSTOR 2380692.
  7. ↑ Furno, Mary Ann (1981). "Reviewed Work: Metacritique: The Philosophical Argument of Jürgen Habermas by G. Kortian, J. Raffan". The Review of Metaphysics. 35 (2): 394–395. JSTOR 20127674.
  8. ↑ Latz, Andrew Brower (2018). The Social Philosophy of Gillian Rose. Cascade Books. p. 40. ISBN 9781498243896.
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