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György Márkus

The native form of this personal name is Márkus György.

This article uses the Western name order.

György Márkus  (born April 13, 1934) is a  Hungarian

philosopher, belonging to the small circle of critical the-

orists closely associated with  György Lukács, usually

referred to as the "Budapest School". He completed

his philosophical training at  Lomonosov University   in

Moscow   in 1957. Due to ideological disputes, he was

removed from his teaching positions in Hungary in 1973,

and fled in 1977 to Australia, where he has since 1978taught at the University of Sydney. Following political

liberalisation in Hungary, Markus has been reassimilated

and now teaches regularly in his homeland, although he

remains resident in Sydney. He is external member of the

HungarianAcademy of Sciences (1990). He is also on the

editorial board of the academic journal Thesis Eleven:

Critical Theory and Historical Sociology.

He is married to eminent Polish sociologist Dr.   Maria

Márkus, a lecturer at the University of New South Wales.

They have two sons, György and András.

1 Selected publications

•   Marxizmus és „antropológia”. Az emberi lényeg fo-

galma Marx filozófiájában, 1966

•   Irányzatok a mai polgári filozófiában, 1972 together

with Zádor Tordai

•   Hogyan lehetséges kritikai gazdaságtan?, 1973 to-

gether with György Bence and János Kis

•   Diktatúra a szükségletek felett (Dictatorship OverNeeds. Ferenc Feher, Agnes Heller and Gyorgy

Markus. Oxford : B. Blackwell, 1983)

•  Why is there no hermeneutics of natural sciences?

Some preliminary theses. Science in Context

1987;1:5-51 (pdf)

•   Kultúra és modernitás. Hermeneutikai kísérletek,

1992

•  Metafizika – mi végre?, 1998

•   “The Soul and Life: The Young Lukács and theProblem of Culture”.   Telos   32 (Summer 1977).

New York: Telos Press.

•   Langage et production. Paris: Denoel/Gonthier,

1982 (English version: Language and Production-

A Critique of the Paradigms. Dordrecht ; Boston :

Norwell, MA, U.S.A. : D. Reidel Pub. Co. ; Kluwer

Academic Publishers [distributor], c1986)

•   “A Society of Culture: The constitution of moder-

nity”. in Rethinking Imagination. 1994. Robinson,

G & Rundell, J. Routledge, eds. London & New

York.

•  Culture, Science, Society: The Constitution of Cul-tural Modernity 2011 Leiden, Brill

•   Marxism and Anthropology, 2014, revised edition

with introduction by Axel Honneth, modem, Berlin.

2 Prizes

•   Akademy Prize of the Philosophy and Humanities

Section of the MTA (Hungarian Academy of Sci-

ences), 1966

•  Lukács György-Prize 2005

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