The daily Magyar Nemzet ("Hungarian Nation")
claimed that those philosophers had missused
funds on a large scale. All of them are
considered "liberal", i.e. skeptical about the
present homeland politics of their country. It
seems that after considerable philosophical
infighting some insider has triggered a police
investigation into the finances of six projects
carefully selected to incite a maximum of
populist indignation. Magyar Nemzet runs an
almost daily campaign on behalf of the Orban
government, insinuating that an elitist
intellectual clique has taken control of
Hungarian academic life. (Alas, still an
effective type of accusation.)
It is easy to whip up resentment against money
spent on philosophy. Mihaly Vajda's project was
on "The Spirit of European Totalitarism"; Agnes
Heller's on Nietzsches, Lukács and Heidegger.
Another scholar, Kornél Steiger had undertaken
new translations of Plato. What a waste of
taxpayers money, since a translation is already
available
http://phaidon.philo.at/qu/?p=843
Agnes Heller 2011 01 16 on Inquisition of Hungarian Philosophers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tydB1czbA
http://philo.at/pipermail/register/attachments/20110121/5a7b8e2c/attachment.pdf
"Wir machen uns Sorgen": Philosoph Jürgen
Habermas und der ehemalige Kultur-Staatsminister
Julian Nida-Rümelin warnen vor Ungarns Umgang mit
missliebigen Regimekritikern - und sprechen vom
"Skandal im Skandal".
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/aufruf-von-habermas-und-nida-ruemelin-schuetzt-die-philosophen-1.1050449
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/logosz/
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