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Volume 75 (2020), 1

Articles

(Original title: Súčasný stav historiografie maďarskej filozofie)
Filozofia, 75 (2020), 1, 1-12.
Abstract

The presented study makes a brief summary of the history of historiography of the Hungarian philosophy from the first half of the 19th century up to present days. Afterwards it deals with main tendencies of the contemporary historiography. It introduces the main results of innovations in this field as follows: the refusal of the standard narrative in the Hungarian… Read more

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(Original title: Isaacus Zabanius’ Existentia Atomorum. Searching for a New Historical-Philosophical Context)
Filozofia, 75 (2020), 1, 13-27.
Abstract

In this paper I deal with the Existentia atomorum (Wittenberg 1667) written by Isaacus Zabanius (1632 – 1707) when he was professor of the College of Eperjes / Prešov in Upper Hungary. After giving a short biography of Zabanius, I critically examine the results of the earlier Hungarian scholarship on the Existentia atomorum presented by János Erdélyi, Jolán… Read more

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(Original title: Béla Hamvas’s Concept of Authentic Tradition in European Context)
Filozofia, 75 (2020), 1, 28-39.
Abstract

A basic element of Béla Hamvas’s philosophy of crisis is an experiment for the reconstruction of the authentic tradition. Hamvas’s concept of tradition has significant parallelism with Karl Jaspers’ theory of axial age. This paper offers an analysis of the parallelism between Hamvas’s ideas about the sacred books as fragments of the unwritten ancestral tradition… Read more

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(Original title: National Characterology in the Interwar Hungarian Thought)
Filozofia, 75 (2020), 1, 40-50.
Abstract

The theory of Béla Hamvas on Hungarian national character is one of the less known aspects of his oeuvre concentrating upon the question of self-redemption with the help of ancient esoteric wisdom hidden in the holy books of different world religions. The paper puts the conception of Hamvas concerning national character into the interwar Hungarian and European… Read more

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(Original title: Georg Lukács in Heidelberg: A Crossroad Between the Academic and Political Career)
Filozofia, 75 (2020), 1, 51-64.
Abstract

The following paper tried to summarize Georg Lukács’s possibilities at the turn of the century in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and in Germany. Lukács began his early career in an uncertain era and searched for a ground, where his philosophy is “accepted”. After several attempts, like the journal Szellem or the Thália, it seemed, that Heidelberg is the centre of… Read more

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Reviews

(Original title: NÉMETH, Atilla: Epicurus on the Self. Issues in Ancient Philosophy)
Filozofia, 75 (2020), 1, 65-66.
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(Original title: GURKA, Dezső (ed.): Changes in the Image of Man from the Enlightenment to the Age of Romanticism – Philosophical and Scientific Receptions of (Physical) Anthropology in the 18 – 19th Centuries)
Filozofia, 75 (2020), 1, 67-68.
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(Original title: BOROS, Gábor – SZALAI, Judit – TÓTH, Olivér István (eds.): The Concept of Affectivity in Early Modern Philosophy)
Filozofia, 75 (2020), 1, 69-70.
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Obituary

(Original title: Spomienka na Ágnes Heller)
Filozofia, 75 (2020), 1, 72-75.