A philosopher of everyday life | The Hungarian is dead …

The Hungarian philosopher Agnes Heller died at the age of 90. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences confirmed his death, although he did not specify the cause or the place of death, although some journalistic versions ensure that it is safe to say that it is safe to do so. is drowned in the lake in which he was swimming. Heller has been considered one of the leading thinkers of the last half-century and has gained notoriety for his texts on everyday life as a social phenomenon. He was born on May 12, 1929 in Budapest, in a Jewish family persecuted during World War II. Several members of her family died in the Holocaust while she was rescued from her deportation to the extermination camps. His father was deported with 450,000 Hungarian Jews after helping other Jews emigrate.

After the war, Heller began studying physics and chemistry in Budapest, but changed his basic science into philosophy when he met György Lukács. He became his disciple and his collaborator by joining the Communist Party. He obtained his doctorate in 1968. After several years of difficulties due to his critical thinking with regard to the Hungarian communist regime of that time, he emigrated in 1977 to Australia, then in 1986 to the United States, where he succeeded to the German presidency. Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York.

He has also taught at universities in other cities, such as Berlin, San Pablo, Turin and Vienna. In October 2017, he went to Buenos Aires and received the honorary doctorate from the National University of Tres de Febrero, in addition to giving a series of lectures. Then she was interviewed by PageI12.

Heller continued to work and periodically publish articles in newspapers around the world. One of his biggest concerns at the moment was the authoritarian turn of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and the danger this posed for democracy in Europe. As a survivor of Nazi and Soviet totalitarianism, I knew exactly what could be the consequence of staying inactive in an badault on freedom.

In addition, she was an important feminist thinker, a topic she said: "This is the only revolution I do not consider problematic and it is the biggest of our time, because it is not about 'a mobilization against a historical period, but against all periods, totally positive, perhaps with the development of human rights'.

Among his books stand out The man of rebirth (1963) Hypothesis for a Marxist theory of values (1974) Needs theory at Marx (1978) A philosophy of history in fragments (1999) and The sociology of everyday life (2002).