Introduction

After one year of law studies, I transferred to the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Szeged, where I received MA diplomas in Philosophy, Hungarian literature, and French language and literature. Afterwards, I obtained an MA degree in Philosophy at the Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne with the direction of Jean-Luc Marion. In my French MA thesis, I analysed the notion of order in the thinking of Descartes, Malebranche, and Pascal. From 1998 to 2003 I completed my doctoral studies at the Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne with a French Government Scholarship, with the direction of Pierre Magnard. I defended my doctoral thesis entitled "The role of reason in the thought of Blaise Pascal" summa cum laude at the Sorbonne in 2003. My dissertation was published in 2007 in Paris by Publications de la Sorbonne with the title “Le rationalisme de Pascal.” Since 1997 I have been teaching at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Szeged, from 2019 as a professor. Since 2021 I am the head of the Department. I have published three books on the interpretation of Pascal's works and thought, one on the perception of the infinite in the Early Modern Age and edited five volumes. I am the editor-in-chief of the philosophy journal Különbség (Difference), a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Early Modern Studies and an associate researcher at the Centre d’Histoire de la Philosophie Moderne de la Sorbonne (HIPHIMO). I am a Francophone by training and a Francophile by disposition, and my classes focus on French philosophy, using French philosophical methods.

Research profile

My research is mainly focused on early modern (seventeenth century) Continental philosophy, in particular on the thought of Descartes, Pascal, Malebranche, Leibniz, and Spinoza. In recent years I have been working on the conceptual history of infinity. I would like to understand how one conceives and perceives infinity, either in the vision of the universe or within the mind. In this research the history of science intersects with epistemology and metaphysics. Through education I am also involved in issues within the philosophy of science, ethics, and political philosophy. I am also interested in phenomenology, especially in its post-1945 French direction (Merleau-Ponty, Lévinas, Marion, Henry). I was visiting professor at the Université de Bourgogne in 2015 and at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne in 2017. I gave invited lectures at the Université de Lorrain, Université de Montpellier-Paul Valéry, Institut Catholic de Toulouse, Science Po de Saint Germain en Laye, University di West (Timisoara), University of Bucharest, University of Cluj, Université de Paris-Est Créteil.