{"id":577,"date":"2011-01-27T11:38:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T15:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/?p=577"},"modified":"2011-01-27T11:38:36","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T15:38:36","slug":"philosophers-targeted-in-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/philosophers-targeted-in-hungary\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophers Targeted in Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ktylerconk\/3249822219\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  alignright colorbox-577\" title=\"Budapest-tiltshift by ktylerconk via Flickr Creative Commons License\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3121\/3249822219_9ff68e3677_m.jpg?w=474\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Several philosophers, among them Agnes Heller, Mih\u00e1ly Vajda, Korn\u00e9l Steiger and others, have been affected by a politically motivated campaign in Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>Herbert Hrachovec offers <a href=\"http:\/\/phaidon.philo.at\/qu\/?p=843\">an overview of the situation on the blog <em>Quatsch<\/em><\/a>, with links to more information.<\/p>\n<p>Laszlo Tengelyi has written an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newappsblog.com\/2011\/01\/open-letter-on-the-situation-of-philosophers-in-hungary.html\">Open Letter Regarding the Situation of Philosophy and Philosophers in Hungary<\/a> (English translation). You can read <a href=\"http:\/\/pusztaranger.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/22\/1370\/\">Tengelyi&#8217;s letter in the original German here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, J\u00fcrgen Habermas and former German Culture minister, Julian Nida-R\u00fcmelin, issued a call to <a href=\"http:\/\/sueddeutsche.de\/kultur\/aufruf-von-habermas-und-nida-ruemelin-schuetzt-die-philosophen-1.1050449\">&#8220;Protect the Philosophers!&#8221; on seuddeutsche.de<\/a> (article in German).<\/p>\n<p>For a summary of the article, see <a href=\"http:\/\/habermas-rawls.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/habermas-and-nida-rumelin-protect.html\">Thomas Gregersen&#8217;s blog, Political Theory &#8211; Habermas and Rawls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To register a protest against this action, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petitiononline.com\/logosz\/\">visit the online petition, which includes an English translation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several philosophers, among them Agnes Heller, Mih\u00e1ly Vajda, Korn\u00e9l Steiger and others, have been affected by a politically motivated campaign in Hungary. Herbert Hrachovec offers an overview of the situation on the blog Quatsch, with links to more information. Laszlo Tengelyi has written an Open Letter Regarding the Situation of Philosophy and Philosophers in Hungary (English translation). You can read Tengelyi&#8217;s letter in the original German here. Today, J\u00fcrgen Habermas and former German Culture minister, . . . <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/philosophers-targeted-in-hungary\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,46],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-interest","tag-announcement","tag-hungary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p276B2-9j","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24,"url":"https:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/plato-on-the-rhetoric-of-philosophers-and-sophists\/","url_meta":{"origin":577,"position":0},"title":"Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists","author":"Christopher Long","date":"April 20, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Congratulations to Marina McCoy on the publication of her book,\u00a0Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists, with Cambridge University Press. 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