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October 24, 2006 -
Hungarian Cultural Center, New York
REVOLUTION, IDEOLOGY AND MEMORY
Panelists
AGNES HELLER, PAUL BERMAN, ROANE CAREY, CSABA BÉKÉS
used the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
to examine the relationship between revolution and ideology in today’s world
Presented by the
Hungarian Cultural
Center, NY, sponsored by
Radical Society
Photos:
Gabriella Gyorffy Short bios: Hungarian Cultural Center, NY
Paul
Berman, Agnes Heller, Roane Carey, and Csaba Békés
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Moderator: Timothy Don, Editor-in-Chief at
Radical Society, a
quarterly journal of politics and culture. As a forum for serious and
sustained intellectual critique of the national conversation, the magazine
publishes commentary, reviews, essays, dispatches, scholarship, art, fiction
and poetry. |
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Csaba Békés is one of
Hungary's leading scholars of new Cold War history. He is the
Founding Director of the Cold War History Research Center in
Budapest (www.coldwar.hu) and a Senior Research Fellow at the
1956 Institute in Budapest. This fall he came to New York as a
Visiting Fulbright Professor at New York University. Békés'
English-language publications include a major edited volume on
the 1956 Revolution, published in 2002 (featured on NPR, US News
& World Report, The New York Times and elsewhere). |
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Agnes Heller experienced
the Hungarian Revolution of '56 firsthand. As a student of
Lukács's during the 1950s, she was a prominent member of the
"Budapest School." She has written widely on the philosophy of
history and morals, and, more recently, the theory of modernity.
Her books include Everyday Life (1970; trans. 1984), The Theory
of Need in Marx (1974), Philosophy of Left Radicalism (1978;
trans. as Radical Philosophy, 1984), Theory of History (1982),
Beyond Justice (1987), Can Modernity Survive? (1990), and A
Philosophy of History in Fragments (1993).
Agnes Heller is
Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy in the Graduate Faculty of
the New School for Social Research, New York. Look for her essay
on trauma in the 2006 fall issue of Radical Society. |
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Paul Berman writes on
politics and literature. His books, which have been translated
into more than fourteen languages, include Power and the
Idealists (2005), Terror and Liberalism (2003), and A Tale of
Two Utopias (1996). He writes for The New Republic, The New York
Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Dissent,
The New Yorker, and a variety of other journals in the United
States and elsewhere.
Source:
Hungarian Cultural
Center, NY |
Roane Carey
Panel was
followed with Q&A and reception
Paul Berman
and Agnes Heller
Paul
Berman, Andras Koerner and Agnes Heller
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