Before a New Turning-Point? Editor’s Note on the situation after the 1998 elections by Gyula Kodolányi.
1% Metaphysics. A passage on democracy and inner freedom by Nándor Várkonyi.
György Varga, former Ambassador of Hungary to the Czech Republic (1990–94), Budapest. The Chances of Slovakia. A survey of the young Slovak state, its political life, its economy, and the implications of the Meciar phenomenon.
Gábor Erdődy, historian, former Ambassador of Hungary to the German Republic (1992–96), Budapest. The Alternatives of Hungarian Foreign Policy in 1848. The German National Assembly of Frankfurt was planned to change Austria’s dominant position in the German lands, which promised to offer, until autumn 1848, a key role to Hungary within a dual monarchy, and the prospects of a Danubian federation.
Professor Miklós Mihály Nagy, Miklós Zrínyi National University of Defense, Budapest. Ferenc Julier, the Military Columnist of Magyar Szemle. First part of a study of the famous general of World War I and the revolutions of 1918–19, who later as an excellent military writer became columnist to the old consevative Magyar Szemle (1929–44).
Father István Jelenits, theologian and literary historian, former Hungarian General of the Piarist Order, talks to Gábor Váczi on „The Believer and Politics.
Márta Pálvölgyi, journalist and social worker, Budapest. Black Work. Case stories of families from the concrete tenements of Budapest, who live their lives in a jumbo of unlegalized work and unlegalized relationships.
András Karácsony, Faculty of Law, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Global Society, The Postmodern, Law. A convergence of national laws is taking place in many areas in the post-modern global era.
Tamás Molnár, Professor of Philosophy, U. S. A. and Budapest. Toward an Interpretation of Post-Modern Society.
Gábor Czakó, novelist and essayist, Budapest. Tip of the Poppyseed. An essay-sketch on post-modern morality.
Professor Szilveszter E. Vizi, Deputy Chairman of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, brain researcher, and Ferenc Oberfrank, research physician and diplomat, Budapest. Sustainable Development in Medical Science. The ethical dilemmas of medical research.
György Szabados, composer, Member of the Editorial Committee, Magyar Szemle, Budapest. A Composer Without Ennui. Ernő Király, an outstanding Hungarian composer living in Szabadka (Subotica, Jugoslavia) celebrates his 80th birthday.
Events and Reviews
István Käfer, The Ambassador of the Third Czechoslovak Republic. A review of Nagykövet voltam Magyarországon (Kalligramm), a memoir by Rudolf Chmel, former Ambassador of the Czechoslovak Republic in Budapest (1990–94).
Tibor Elek reviews Jadviga párnája (Magvető) by Pál Závada, Hungarian novel of the year in 1997.
Gáspár Gróh reviews Nagy László (Kalligramm) by Gábor Tolcsvai Nagy, a monograph on the major mid-century poet written in the language of deconstructionist critique.
Árpád Fasang writes on Visszaemlékezéseim (Püski), the memoirs of Gábor Vladár, Minister of Justice in the Lakatos government in 1944, earlier state secretary, who had to hide from the Nazis until the end of the war.
Mihály Kubinszky. The Protection of Architectural Character. A branch of the protection of historical monuments protects and restores not individual buildings but entire complexes that bear a strong historic accent.
Katalin Metz production of Eugenen O’Neill’s and Tom Stoppard’s at the Pesti Theatre and the Katona József Theatre, Budapest.
Lilla Szabó writes on the art of contemporary Hungarian photographer Ferenc Olasz on the occasion of his recent exhibition. Our present issue is illustrated by reproductions of his work.
Gáspár Gróh gives an analysis of the recent parliamentary elections in our current survey of domestic events.
Gyula Kodolányi. A Dreaming Realist of the Integration. A review of Európa, nemzet, jogállam (Magyar Szemle), a collection of essays and interviews by János Martonyi, State Secretary in the Antall and Boross governments.
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