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Markus, Gyorgy was born on April 13, 1934 in Budapest, Hungary. Son of Nandor and Friderica (Roth) Markus. arrived in Australia, 1978.
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In Language and Production, Gyorgy Markus presents us with a pro found critique of contemporary social theory: of the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences; of the philosophy of language; of hermeneutics and critical theory; and finally, of Marx and of Marxisms. The sweep of Markus' project is complemented by the extraordinary detail of his analysis and the elaborately developed argument which gives the work its clear logical structure: it is a dialectical work. Markus begins with a critique of the paradigm of language and of that scientific ra tionality modeled on language, as frameworks for the understanding of social reality, and for a rational 'science of society' . After revealing what he takes to be the essential failure of that paradigm in its positivist ver sion (in the work of Sir Karl Popper, who, he argues, remains within the positivist framework despite his differences with other positivists) - Markus examines the alternative interpretations of that paradigm in the hermeneutic tradition from Dilthey through Heidegger and Gadamer, and then in the structural anthropology of Claude Levi-Strauss and in the philosophy of language of Ludwig Wittgenstein. In all of these approaches, Markus sees a systematic flaw in the at tempt to frame human action as one or another form of linguistic prac tice, or even to read human self-constitution as essentially linguistic.
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("Marxism and Anthropology" is one of the most detailed ph...)
"Marxism and Anthropology" is one of the most detailed philosophically-oriented attempts at explaining Marx's own position on philosophical anthropology, encompassing the organic conditions of human sociality, the humanization of nature and the naturalization of man. In the second decade of the 21st Century, rethinking Marx's intensely historicized conception of human nature has become an important consideration for critical and social theory due to a renewed interest in finding a possible anthropological basis for normatively grounding radical social critique (for example, in the works of Axel Honneth, Charles Taylor or Emmanuel Renault). György Márkus belongs to the small group of Hungarian theorists associated with Georg Lukács and 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. This special reissue of Márkus' most influential work adds an introduction by Axel Honneth (Director of the Frankfurt School for Social Research) and Hans Joas (University of Freiburg).
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philosopher university professor
Markus, Gyorgy was born on April 13, 1934 in Budapest, Hungary. Son of Nandor and Friderica (Roth) Markus. arrived in Australia, 1978.
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 also on the editorial board of the academic journal Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology.
They have two sons, György and Andráson
(In Language and Production, Gyorgy Markus presents us wit...)
("Marxism and Anthropology" is one of the most detailed ph...)
(Book by Feher, Ferenc, Heller, Agnes, Markus, Gyorgy)
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Marxism and Anthropology, 2014, revised edition with introduction by Axel Honneth, modem, Berlin.
Hungarian Academy of Sciences]
He is external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1990).
Married Maria Renata Otto, July 9, 1956. Children: Gyorgy Junior, Andras.