Region Western Philosophy Spouse Emese Simorjay (m. 2001) Role Philosopher | Name Gyorgy Markus Awards Academy Prize | |
Influenced Janos Kis, Axel Honneth, Andrew Arato, Jurgen Habermas, Agnes Heller Books Language and Production: A Critique of the Paradigms Similar People Karl Marx, Gyorgy Lukacs, Axel Honneth, Zador Tordai, Emese Simorjay | ||
György Márkus (13 April 1934 – 5 October 2016) was 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 was reassimilated and taught regularly in his homeland, although he remained resident in Sydney. He was external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1990). He was also on the editorial board of the academic journal Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology.
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He was married to eminent Polish sociologist Dr. Maria Márkus, a lecturer at the University of New South Wales. They have two sons, György and András.