György Márkus

György Márkus ( born April 13, 1934) is a Hungarian philosopher and student of Georg Lukács.

Life

By 1957, he studied in Moscow at the Moscow State University and started to work in Hungary. From 1957 to 1965 he taught at the Lorand Eötvös University of Sciences 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 position in 1973 and emigrated in 1977 to Australia. He is Emeritus Professor at the Philosophy Department of the University of Sydney. Since 1990 he is 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 socialism and thus came into conflict with the state party. After 1968, he turned away from Marxism. Gazdaságtan In Hogyan lehetséges kritikai? ("What is a critical economics possible?" ) He criticizes Marxist ideas. After emigrating, he occupied himself with cultural theory and hermeneutics.

Works

  • Marxizmus és " Anthropology ". 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 contemporary bourgeois philosophy " )
  • Hogyan lehetséges kritikai gazdaságtan? , 1973 together with Gyorgy Bence and Janos Kis ("What is a critical economics possible?" )
  • Diktatura a szükségletek felett, 1983 along with Ferenc Fehér and Ágnes Heller ( " dictatorship over everything " )
  • Kultúra és modernitás. Hermeneutikai kísérletek, 1992 ( " culture and modernization. Hermeneutic experiments")
  • Metafizika - mi Vegre, 1998 ( " Metaphysics - What for? " )?
  • Culture, Science, Society: The Constitution of Cultural Modernity 2011 Leiden, Brill

Note: The title given in brackets are translated freely and not have to go in German translation available fonts.

Prices

  • Academy Award of the Department of Philosophy and Historical Sciences of the MTA, 1966
  • Lukács György Prize 2005

Swell

  • Lehmannm, Miklós, MTA Filozófiai Intézete (ed.): Az elidegenedés - és Antropologia -vita Politikai összefüggései. A marxista Filozofia reneszánszától a filozófusperig. ( Title in German: " The political context of Alienation and anthropology dispute " http://www.phil-inst.hu/ ~ lehmann / elidegen.htm, accessed on 26.11.2008 ).
  • Márkus, György: Nagyon szeretem a Filozofia radikalitását - még ha veszélyes is. In: Nemenyi, László (ed.): Beszélő. Volume 3, Budapest November 1996, pp. 12-22 ( Title in German: " I ​​love the radicality of philosophy - even if it is dangerous. " Conversation with György Márkus in the journal Beszélő. ).
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