
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2008
Pages: 173-175
Series: Studies in East European Thought
Full citation:
, "Agency, ethics and politics in Aurel Kolnai's philosophy," Studies in East European Thought 60, 2008, pp. 173-175


Agency, ethics and politics in Aurel Kolnai's philosophy,
pp. 173-175
in: Tamás Demeter (ed), The sociological tradition of Hungarian philosophy, Studies in East European Thought 60, 2008.Abstract
Aurel Kolnai’s career started fairly typically in fin-de-siècle Hungary. First he belonged to a circle of intellectuals (Galilei Circle) in a period in which the network of such circles was so typically characteristic of Hungarian intellectual life; his interests initially turned to the intersection of sociology and psychoanalysis, both dominant topics in contemporary discussions; and along with so many other intellectuals he left Hungary after the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy. Jewish by birth, he converted to Catholicism, again an act fairly typical of the period, but he became a practicing Catholic and true believer, which was significantly less common in the secular atmosphere of the era. And while the issues of political philosophy remained in the forefront of his interests, his attention, as opposed to other Hungarian emigrant philosophers, turned away from sociological approaches toward a phenomenological method, which characterises his most important works.
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Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2008
Pages: 173-175
Series: Studies in East European Thought
Full citation:
, "Agency, ethics and politics in Aurel Kolnai's philosophy," Studies in East European Thought 60, 2008, pp. 173-175