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Elemer Hankiss

Elemér Hankiss (4 May 1928 – 10 January 2015) was a Hungarian sociologist. His first wife was MEP Ágnes Hankiss.

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He was born in the Eastern Hungarian town of Debrecen, where his father was a professor of literature.

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He received his university degree in French and English languages from Budapest University, where he later graduated with a PhD.

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After the 1956 Hungarian Revolution he spent 10 months in pretrial detention but was eventually acquitted.

He was the President of the Hungarian Television between 1990-93, a state-owned monopoly at the time, which he tried to turn from a propaganda tool into a modern, production- and viewer-oriented, competition-ready media company.

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He has written extensively on values system in Hungary and Central Europe, as well as on global civilisation. His concept of Second Society has been much cited in East European Studies.

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He has been a professor at Stanford University, the Bruges and Florence University Institutes as well as the Central European University.

He died in Budapest after a short illness on 10 January 2015.

Fears and Symbols: An Introduction to the Study of Western Civilization

One of his most important books is Fears and Symbols: An Introduction to the Study of Western Civilization (2006).

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References

Elemér Hankiss Wikipedia