György Márkus

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György Márkus (born April 13, 1934 , † October 6, 2016 in Sydney ) was a Hungarian philosopher and student of Georg Lukács .

Life

Until 1957 he studied in Moscow at the Lomonosov University and began to work in Hungary . From 1957 to 1965 he taught at the Lorand Eötvös Science University and was a member of the Philosophical Research Institute. In 1963 he translated Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus into Hungarian . He was considered a candidate for the chair of philosophy.

In 1968 he signed a letter of protest against the Soviet occupation, which is why he was expelled from the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSZMP). Because of his political views, he lost his job in 1973 and emigrated to Australia in 1977 . He is Professor Emeritus in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sydney . Since 1990 he has been a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA).

philosophy

In the 1960s, Márkus was a member of the Budapest School . He worked on a renewal of Marxist philosophy by analyzing the concept of alienation . As a neo-Marxist , he criticized the real existing socialism and thus came into conflict with the state party. After 1968 he turned away from Marxism. In Hogyan lehetséges kritikai gazdaságtan? (“How is a critical economics possible?”) He criticized Marxist ideas. After his emigration he dealt with cultural theory and hermeneutics .

Works

  • Marxizmus és "antropológia". Az emberi lényeg fogalma Marx filozófiájában, 1966

("Marxism and" Anthropology ". The Concept of the Human Being in Karl Marx's Philosophy")

  • Irányzatok a mai polgári filozófiában , 1972 together with Zádor Tordai ("Currents in today's bourgeois philosophy")
  • Hogyan lehetséges kritikai gazdaságtan? , 1973 together with György Bence and János Kis ("How is critical economics possible?")
  • Diktatúra a szükségletek felett , 1983 together with Ferenc Fehér and Ágnes Heller ("Dictatorship above everything")
  • Kultúra és modernitás. Hermeneutikai kísérletek , 1992 ("Culture and modernization. Hermeneutic experiments")
  • Metafizika - mi végre? , 1998 (" Metaphysics - What for?")
  • Culture, Science, Society: The Constitution of Cultural Modernity 2011 Leiden, Brill

Note: The titles in brackets are freely translated and do not refer to fonts available in German translation.

Prices

  • Academy Prize of the Philosophy and History Department of the MTA , 1966
  • Lukács György Prize 2005

swell

  • Lehmannm, Miklós: Az elidegenedés- és antropológia-vita politikai összeugtgései . A marxista filozófia reneszánszától a filozófusperig. Ed .: MTA Filozófiai Intézete. (Hungarian, phil-inst.hu [accessed on November 26, 2008] Title in German: “The political contexts of the alienation and anthropological dispute ”).
  • Márkus, György: Nagyon szeretem a filozófia radikalitását - még ha veszélyes is . In: Neményi, László (ed.): Beszélő . 3rd year. Budapest November 1996, p. 12–22 (Hungarian, title in German: “I love the radicalism of philosophy - even when it is dangerous.” Conversation with György Márkus in the magazine Beszélő ).

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personal data
SURNAME György, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian philosopher and student of Georg Lukács
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1934
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 2016
Place of death Sydney , Australia