Cristian Réka Mónika, Kérchy Anna (eds)

Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education II

The Young Marxist: The Influence of Lukács and the Budapest School (1947–1973)

It was as a university student that Heller came under the influence of György Lukács, by then a renowned Marxist philosopher well ahead in his years, whose reputation rested on works he had written in German. In Budapest, Heller became his student and later teaching assistant, and the erratic political assessment of her master’s thought by the prevailing establishment continued to shape her personal destiny. By the early 1950s, Heller had adopted a critical stance toward the totalitarian ideology of communism, and took an active part in the 1956 revolution—an involvement that later cost her job for the first time. Lukács was instrumental in forming a friendly society of his students, whose program of renewing and humanizing Marxism would become known in the 1960s and ‘70s as the hallmark of the Budapest School. Heller’s early studies already displayed a keen interest in ethical issues. She wrote about Chernyshevsky and Aristotle (1966) and held university lectures on similar subjects, to be later published in print.

Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education II

Tartalomjegyzék

Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2023

ISBN: 978 963 454 927 7

Művelődéstörténet Idegen nyelvű

In this sequel to the first volume of Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education published in 2022, editors Réka M. Cristian and Anna Kérchy present the portraits of twenty-two prominent Hungarian women scholars, scientists and educators who made pioneering contributions to Hungary’s scientific achievement over the centuries. Some of the women introduced in the sixteen chapters come from traditional disciplines such as pharmacy, medicine, historiography, engineering, mathematics, archeology, psychology, and philosophy, while others furthered on fields not necessarily viewed, especially at the time, as science or scholarship proper, but which are nonetheless deeply intellectual, such as physical, special needs, reform, or music education, feminism, and historic preservation. The book offers a bird’s eye view summary of the accomplishments reached and challenges faced by these exceptional Hungarian female academics and intellectuals.

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