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