Elemér Hankiss
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Elemér Hankiss (4 May 1928 – 10 January 2015) was a Hungarian sociologist. His first wife was MEP Ágnes Hankiss.
He was born in the town of Debrecen in eastern Hungary, where his father, János Hankiss was a professor of literature.
He received his university degree in French and English languages from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, where he later obtained a PhD.
Following the 1956 Hungarian Revolution he spent 10 months in pretrial detention but was eventually acquitted.
He was the president of the Hungarian Television from 1990 to 1993. It was a state-owned monopoly at the time, which he tried to turn into a modern, production- and viewer-oriented, competition-ready media company. In 1993, he was controversially forced to resign in connection with the so-called 'Media War' (in Hungarian: médiaháború) between the government and the media in the early 1990s.[1]
He has written extensively on values system in Hungary and Central Europe, as well as on global civilization. His concept of Second Society has been much cited in East European Studies.[2]
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.[3]
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).
See also
References
- ^ "Hungary's 'Media War' Curbs Press Freedoms". Christian Science Monitor. 11 January 1993. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 3 October 2018 – via Christian Science Monitor.
- ^ Stranius, Pentti: Lähde 2/2005, Joensuu. The Source for Second Society: Hankiss, Elemér (1988): The "Second Society": Is There an Alternative Social Model Emerging in Contemporary Hungary. In Social Research 55/1988, Nos 1-2, pp. 13-42.
- ^ http://hvg.hu/itthon/20150110_Elhunyt_Hankiss_Elemer/
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