HISTORY, FREEDOM, POLITICS, THE IDEA OF THE ANCIENT GREEK IN GEORG LUKACS AND HANNAH ARENDT (Tortenelem, szabadsag, politika. Lukacs Gyorgy es Hannah Arendt gorogsegkepe)

• Authors: Budai Gabor
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

In this essay the author attempts to sketch a comparative analysis of the imagination of the ancient Greek worldview in two of the greatest twentieth century thinkers, Georg Lukacs and Hannah Arendt. Actually, Lukacs in his 'The Theory of the Novel' (written during World War I) as well as Arendt in her 'The Human Condition' (inspired by the historical experience of the totalitarian systems in the late fifties) aimed at grasping the essence of modernity. Both of them found freedom as a crucial point in relation to which one can aptly define modernity. However, from this common starting-point their line of thinking went on in a basically different way.

Keywords

EN

FREEDOM; MODERNITY; PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY; POLITICS

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Department of Economics and Law, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Tarsadalomkutatas (Social Science Research)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 19-25
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Budai Gabor

• Gabor Budai, Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (for postal address contact the journal editor)

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10HUAAAA07842