Tran Duc Thao, Vietnamese philosopher and theorist (born 1917)

Tran Duc Thao

Phenomenology and Marxist philosophy

Trần Đức Thảo was a Vietnamese philosopher. His work 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.