Introduction

I graduated at the University of Szeged (previously JATE) in Law and at Lóránd Eötvös University, Budapest in Philosophy. Since graduation, I have been a member of the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Szeged, where I am currently a full Professor. I have also taught at several other higher education institutions. I also studied at the University of Vienna on an ÖAAD scholarship and at the University of Heidelberg on a DAAD scholarship. I obtained my doctorate in 1995 and defended my habilitation in 2000. I was awarded the title of Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2004. 

Between 2003-2005 and 2014-2017 I was Vice-Dean and since 2017 I have been Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Szeged.

I have participated in and led several research projects. I have a standing cooperation with the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre (University of Copenhagen) in my research area. Thus, I am involved in several projects and am currently one of the organizers and editors of the new Hungarian edition of Kierkegaard (based on the Kierkegaard Skifter). I have visited the University of Copenhagen several times, where I worked as a researcher and guest lecturer. I am a regular participant in the work of the Nietzsche-Gesellschaft. I am a founding member of the Deutsch-Ungarische Gesellschaft für Philosophie.

Research profile

My main research interests include the philosophy of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, their relationship, classical German idealism (Kant, Hegel), especially Schelling, and German Romanticism in connection with his philosophy.

I have published several books in these fields of research (e.g., Kierkegaard and German Idealism, Zarathustra and Victor Eremita, The Century of Existence), a monograph on Schelling and Kierkegaard, and several translations of Schelling and Kierkegaard. Among other things, I was the first to translate into Hungarian several works of Kierkegaard and Schelling (Kierkegaard: Repetition, Kierkegaard: Berlin Fragments, Schelling: Private Lectures of Stuttgart, Schelling: Philosophical Investigations into Essence of Human Freedom, Schelling: Philosophy and Religion). My writings have been published in German and English by renowned foreign publishers (Walter de Gruyter, Routledge, Mohr Siebeck, Vrin). One of my most recent articles was published in a volume by Palgrave Macmillan under the title “Schelling as a Transitional Figure from Idealism to Existentialism”.

Lately I have been interested mainly in the philosophy of art, on which I have published several books: Image and Myth, Aesthetics of Mythology I. (2014) Image and Myth II. (2016), and The Limits of Our Human Being (2016). 

Publications

1. Selected books

Schelling. Budapest: Attraktor 2005.

Kierkegaard. Budapest: Attraktor 2007.

Søren Kierkegaard. GlobeEdit 2017

Alien and Other. L’Harmattan: Budapest 2020.

2. Selected publications

“Essay on the Concept of Art and Reality.” ESPES 10/1 (2021), 32-41.

“Schelling as a Transitional Figure from Idealism to Existentialism.” In The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Existentialism, edited by Jon Stewart (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2020), 103-29.

“Faith and Existence. A Study of S. Kierkegaard's Conception of Faith.” In Kierkegaard Secondary Literature, edited by Jon Stewart (New York, London: Routledge 2017), 39-45.

“The Shadow of the Author: The Romantic Myth of the Poet in the Creation Aesthetics of Kierkegaard and E.T.A. Hoffmann.” In Kierkegaard Secondary Literature, edited by Jon Stewart (New York, London: Routledge 2017), 27-33.

“Ähnlichkeiten und Diskrepanzen.: Nietzsche und Kierkegaard in der ungarischen Rezeption.” In Einige werden posthum geboren: Friedrich Nietzsches Wirkungen, edited by Renate Reschke and Marco Brusotti (New York, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 2012), 595-603.

“The Heteronomy of Sin: Richard, Agamemnon or perhaps Abraham?” Revue Internationale de philosophie 63/247 (Paris: Vrin 2009), 73-86.

“Die Wirklichkeit der Existenz (Über die Seinsanalyse Kierkegaards).” In Prima Philosophia, Vol. 14/4, edited by Sabine S. Gehlhaar and Michaela Ph. Jaeggi (Cuxhaven and Dartford: Junghans Verlag 2001), 53-67.

“Kierkegaard Forschung in Ungarn. Vergangenheit und Gegenwart.” In Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, 2000, edited by Niels Jörgen Cappelørn and Hermann Deuser (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter 2000), 341-60.

3. Full list of publications

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