Gábor Kovács |
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Name: Kovács Gábor Date and Place of Birth: May 1959, Gyöngyös, Hungary Marital Status: married Citizenship: Hungarian Adress: Present Job: research fellow, The Insititute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| Former Jobs: | |
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| 1984-1985: | young research fellow, The Institute of Philosophy |
| 1985-1986: | lecturer, Department of Philosophy of University of Miskolc |
| 1986-1988: | director, Hatvany Lajos Museum |
| 1988-1991: | grantee, Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| Education: | |
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| M.A. Phil.,ELTE University, Faculty of Arts | |
| Graduate Study: | philosophy and history |
| Courses in: | methodology and research, medieval philosophy, philosophy of history |
| Thesis: | The evolution of St. Augustine's thinking on the philosophy of history, 1984 |
| Qualifications: |
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| Learned methods of historical research, proven skills in various methods in the scientific study of philosophy and history. |
| Research: | |
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| 1984-85: | Research in the field of 20th century metahistory: mainly Karl Popper's and Toynbee's theory. |
| 1988-91: | Grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Individualized programme, subject of research: the problem of God in the theology of "Death of God". |
| 1992-94: | Grant of the Central European University. Title of the project: Can power be humenized? Politics and Morals in István Bibó's Social Philosophy. Research work in the field of medieval political theology. |
| 1994-98: | Investigation of so-called 'crisis- philosophies' in the inter-war era, between |
| 1920-1939: | Oswald Spengler, Ortega y Gasset, Johan Huizinga. Concepts of elites and democracy in Spengler's political philosophy. |
| 1988: | Partaking in the researches of the Research Group for Social Philosophy directing towards the theory of information society. |
| March, 1998: | Grant of the Hungarian Soros Foundation for writting a biography on István Bibó. |
Created: 17 November 1998 by Pluhár Emese