György Márkus

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The native form of this personal name is Márkus György. This article uses the Western name order.
György Márkus
Born (1934-05-13)May 13, 1934
Budapest, Hungary
Era 20th century philosophy
Region Western Philosophy
School Marxism, Western Marxism, Critical Theory
Main interests Marxism · Culture

György Márkus (born April 13, 1934) is a Hungarian philosopher, belonging to the small circle of critical theorists 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 1978 taught 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 Hungarian Academy 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. Thesis Eleven Editorial Board

Selected publications

  • Marxizmus és „antropológia”. Az emberi lényeg fogalma Marx filozófiájában, 1966 (Marxism and Anthropology (The Concept of "Human Essence" in the Philosophy of Marx))
  • Irányzatok a mai polgári filozófiában, 1972 together with Zádor Tordai
  • Hogyan lehetséges kritikai gazdaságtan?, 1973 together with György Bence and János Kis
  • Diktatúra a szükségletek felett (Dictatorship Over Needs. Ferenc Feher, Agnes Heller and Gyorgy Markus. Oxford : B. Blackwell, 1983)
  • Kultúra és modernitás. Hermeneutikai kísérletek, 1992
  • Metafizika – mi végre?, 1998
  • “The Soul and Life: The Young Lukács and the Problem 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 modernity". in Rethinking Imagination. 1994. Robinson, G & Rundell, J. Routledge, eds. London & New York.
  • Culture, Science, Society: The Constitution of Cultural Modernity 2011 Leiden, Brill

Prizes

  • Akademy Prize of the Philosophy and Humanities Section of the MTA (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), 1966
  • Lukács György-Prize 2005
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