"The junge Hegel" (English spelling)

…After the Nazis came to power in 1933, he fled to Moscow and joined the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences, where he studied literary history and aesthetics. He engaged in the so-called “Expressionist Controversy” with Seghers, Bloch, and Brecht regarding the positioning of civil realism and avant-garde art. After the war, he returned to Hungary and became a professor at the University of Budapest. He established himself as a representative thinker in the Eastern bloc through his controversy with existentialism, “The Young Hegel” (1948), which pointed out the influence of economics on the formation of Hegelian philosophy, and “The Collapse of Reason” (1954), which criticized the irrationalism of modern Western philosophy that prepared the Nazis. However, despite his repeated self-criticism, he was criticized by the party after the Hungarian incident and other events, and in his later years he devoted himself to writing on aesthetics and ontology. …

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…33年のナチス政権獲得後はモスクワに亡命，科学アカデミー哲学研究所に属して文学史，美学等の研究に従事，市民的リアリズム，前衛芸術の位置づけに関しゼーガース，ブロッホ，ブレヒトらといわゆる〈表現主義論争〉をおこす。戦後ハンガリーに帰ってブダペスト大学教授となり，実存主義との論争や，ヘーゲル哲学の形成への経済学の影響を指摘した《若きヘーゲルDer junge Hegel》(1948)，ナチスを準備した近代の西欧哲学の非合理主義を批判した《理性の崩壊Die Zerstörung der Vernunft》(1954)等により，東側の代表的思想家の地位を確立する。しかしたび重なる自己批判にかかわらず，ハンガリー事件等のたびに党側からは非難を受け，晩年は美学，存在論等の著述に没頭した。…

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