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Ágnes Heller

1929 - 2019

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Ágnes Heller (12 May 1929 – 19 July 2019) was a Hungarian philosopher and lecturer. She was a core member of the Budapest School philosophical forum in the 1960s and later taught political theory for 25 years at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ágnes Heller has received more than 206,070 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Ágnes Heller is the 376th most popular philosopher (up from 403rd in 2019), the 100th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 104th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Hungarian Philosopher.

Agnès Heller is a Hungarian-born German philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. She is most famous for her work on Marx, Hegel, and the history of philosophy.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ágnes Heller ranks 376 out of 1,267. Before her are Francis Hutcheson, Jean Gerson, Gershom Scholem, Richard Avenarius, Nicephorus Gregoras, and Leo Strauss. After her are Gennadius Scholarius, Hilary Putnam, Masanobu Fukuoka, John of Salisbury, Plutarch of Athens, and Saadia Gaon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Ágnes Heller ranks 70. Before her are Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Bernard Haitink, Jerry Goldsmith, Gordon Moore, Peter L. Berger, and Violeta Chamorro. After her are George Steiner, Albert Azaryan, Imelda Marcos, Mike Hawthorn, Andriyan Nikolayev, and Abdel Halim Hafez. Among people deceased in 2019, Ágnes Heller ranks 50. Before her are Franco Columbu, Raymond Poulidor, Kary Mullis, Li Peng, Prem Tinsulanonda, and Yasuhiro Nakasone. After her are Fernando de la Rúa, Ferdinand Piëch, Sydney Brenner, Moshe Arens, César Pelli, and Demetris Christofias.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Ágnes Heller ranks 100 out of 1,077. Before her are István Tisza (1861), Mihály Károlyi (1875), Samuel Aba (990), George Andrew Olah (1927), János Áder (1959), and József Mindszenty (1892). After her are John Corvinus (1473), Margaret Mahler (1897), Stephen IV of Hungary (1133), István Szabó (1938), Pál Teleki (1879), and Cornel Wilde (1912).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Hungary

Among philosophers born in Hungary, Ágnes Heller ranks 4. Before her are Rudolf Steiner (1861), György Lukács (1885), and Imre Lakatos (1922). After her are Ervin László (1932), Victor Basch (1863), George Gerbner (1919), István Mészáros (1930), Thomas Sebeok (1920), and Stanley Jaki (1924).

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