Culture, Science, Society ─ The Constitution of Cultural Modernity

Markus (emeritus, philosophy, U. of Sydney, Australia) emigrated from his native Hungary to Australia in 1978, and is a central figure of the Budapest School. He presents an introduction to this collection of 21 essays, which were written over a period of almost 40 years--the earliest one published while the author was still in Hungary and the remainder while in Australia. Among the topics: the paradoxical unity of the arts and the sciences; changing images of science; communication, science, democracy; Hegel and the end of art; Marxism and theories of culture; and Adorno and mass culture--to name just a few. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Gyorgy Markus, PhD in Philosophy, awarded in 1965 by the Hungarian Academy. Emigrated to Australia in 1978. First Lecturer, then Reader and from 1994, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia. He retired in 2000.