Hungarian philosopher Ágnes Heller is dead | I had 90 years to …

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.

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 social phenomena. 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. She obtained her doctorate in 1968 and emigrated to Australia in 1977. Later, in 1986, she moved to the United States, where she taught 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
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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).