Gábor Kovács
Name: Gábor Kovács
Date and Place of Birth: May 1959, Gyöngyös, Hungary
Citizenship: Hungarian
Work address: Research Centre
for the Humanities, Institute
of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1014 Budapest, Országház u. 30. Hungary
E-mail:
gbrkvcs3@gmail.com
kovker@freemail.hu
Present
Job: senior research
fellow
Education
M.A.
Phil.,
ELTE
University,
Faculty of Arts, Budapest,
1984.
Graduate
Study: philosophy and
history
Thesis: The philosophy of history of Saint Augustine, 1984.
PhD
(political philosophy), ELTE
University,
Faculty of
Arts, Budapest,
2004.
Doctoral dissertation: István Bibó’s Political
Philosophy, summa cum laude.
Books
2001
Kovács Gábor: A megátalkodott
jóhiszeműség esélyei (Chances for
Stubborn Good Faith.
Studies in the History of
Ideas), Budapest, Liget
2004 Kovács Gábor: Az
európai
egyensúlytól a kölcsönös
szolgáltatások társadalmáig.
Bibó István,
a politikai gondolkodó (From European Equilibrium to the Society of Mutual Services.
István Bibó, the
Political Thinker), Argumentum,
Budapest
2008
Kovács Gábor: Az utolsó
kísértés – változatok a hatalomra
(The
Last Temptation –Variations of Power. Studies in the
History of Political Ideas),
Liget, Budapest
2010
Kovács Gábor: Frankensteintől
a zöldekig – a gép és kritikusai (From
Frankenstein to the Greens – the Machine
and its Critics. Studies in the History of Ideas) Liget, Budapest
Latest Studies:
Gábor
Kovács: Revolution, lifestyle, power
and culture—features of political
thought
in the Sixties. In: Muddling Through in the Long 1960s Ideas and
Everyday Life
in High Politics and the Lower Classes of Communist Hungary. Edited by János M. Rainer and
György Péteri. Trondheim
Studies On East European Cultures and Societies, No. 16, Trondheim, May
2005, 27–52. pp.
Gábor
Kovács: Revolution,
Lebensweise, Macht und Kultur. Charakteristiken des politischen
Denkens in
den sechziger Jahren. In: Die „sechziger
Jahre” in Ungarn. Studien. Hrsg. Von János M. Rainer.
Herne: Gabriele
Schafer Verlag, 2009, 207–256.
Gábor Kovács: A
Forefather of Environmentalism – Lewis
Mumford, The Critic of Technology and Civilization In: Philobiblon,
Journal of
the Kucian Blaga Central University Library, Volume XIV., Cluj
University Press
2009, 233–238.
Gábor
Kovács: Search for
Identity as Art of Life in the Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt.
In: Art of Life.
Origins, Foundations and Perspectives. With Contributions
of Ulrich Beck, Wilhelm Schmid,
Santiago Sia, Karl M. Woschitz and others. Edited By Janez Juhant
and Bojan Zalec,
Wien-Zürich-Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2010, 119-127.
Gábor
Kovács: A short history of modernity from The
fable of the bees to Brave new world
– Lewis Mumford and his critique of modernity. In: Janez Juhant,
Bojan Zalec
(eds.): Humanity after Selfish Prometheus. Chances of Dialogue and
Ethics in a
Technicized World, Wien-Zürich-Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2011, ISBN
978-3-643-90075-3, pp.201-208.
Gábor Kovács: The myth
of the wicked city in the cultural criticism of O. Spengler. In: Limes:
Borderland Studies, Volume 4,
Number 1, June 2011, pp. 64-74.
Website:
http://www.phil-inst.hu/~kovacsg
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