Gáspár Miklós Tamás
Gáspár Miklós Tamás , also GM Tamás , (born November 28, 1948 in Kolozsvár , Romania ) is a Hungarian philosopher and politician .
Life
Gáspár Miklós Tamás was born in Romania as a member of the Hungarian minority . He studied philosophy and classical philology at the Babes Bolyai University of Cluj and graduated in 1972. In 1978 he moved to Hungary for political reasons, where he taught at the University of Budapest (ELTE). In the 1980s he was part of the illegal opposition to the communist one-party regime and was only able to publish underground or abroad. After the political change in Eastern Europe , he was a co-founder of the Hungarian Liberals (SZDSZ, Szabad Demokratieák Szövetsége ) and from 1989 to 1994 their member of parliament. He taught as a guest at the Universities of Columbia , Oxford , Chicago , Georgetown and Yale and had research stays in Paris , Vienna , Washington DC and Berlin .
In the late 1990s he developed a radical criticism of capitalism and in 2001 co-founded the Hungarian Attac movement . In 2010 he became chairman of the Zöld baloldal party ("Green Links"), which, however, did not achieve any significant result in the 2010 parliamentary elections .
Tamás was removed from his position as director of the Philosophical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2011 by the right-wing Orbán government ; his successor was János Boros .
Tamás received the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Soros Foundation Hungary .
Tamás is married and has four children.
Fonts (selection)
- A teória esélyei Esszék . Bucharest: Kriterion, 1975
- Censorship, ethnic discrimination, and the culture of the Hungarians in Romania . Vienna: International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights , 1985
- A szem és a kéz . Samizdat. Független , 1983
- Idola tribe . Paris: Dialogues Européens, 1989
- Másvilág. Politikai esszék . Új Mandátum, 1994
- Törzsi fogalmak I-II., Atlantisz Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 1999, ISBN 9639165263
- A helyzet. Szatirikus röpirat . Élet és Irodalom , 2002
- Descartes: A módszerről . Criterion Könyvkiadó Téka, szerk. Géczi Róbert, 2003
- Innocent power = The innocent power . Essay. dOCUMENTA (13) . Translation Barbara Hess. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2011
- The Hungarian Disaster , Commentary, in: taz , January 3, 2011
- Communism after 1989: Contributions to class theory, real socialism, Eastern Europe . Ed. And transl. by Gerold Wallner. Vienna: Mandelbaum, 2015
Web links
- Literature by and about Gáspár Miklós Tamás in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about GM Tamas in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Gáspár Miklós Tamás in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Orbán critic Tamás: The philosopher who warned Europe against the post-fascists , portrait by Keno Verseck in Spiegel Online , December 26, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Gáspár Miklós Tamás , at Central European University (CEU, Budapest)
- ↑ To: MTA , at: Labornet
- ↑ János Boros , at MTA
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tamás, Gáspár Miklós |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tamás, GM |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian philosopher and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kolozsvár |