György Márkus

The native form of this personal name is Márkus György. This article uses the Western name order.

György Márkus

Full name	György Márkus
Born	May 13, 1934(1934-05-13) Budapest, Hungary
Era	20th century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Marxism, Western Marxism, Critical Theory
Main interests	Marxism · Culture
Influenced by Marx · Lukács
Influenced Agnes Heller · Jurgen Habermas · Axel Honneth · Janos Kis

György Márkus (born April 13, 1934, Budapest) is a Hungarian philosopher, a student of Lukács and a member of the "Budapest School" of socialist philosophy. 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

• “The Soul and Life: The Young Lukács and the Problem of Culture”. Telos 32 (Summer 1977). New York: Telos Press.
• "A Society of Culture: The constitution of modernity". in Rethinking Imagination. 1994. Robinson, G & Rundell, J. Routledge, eds. London & New York.

See also: Márkus