Prof. BALAZS MEZEI (Department of theoretical philosophy - Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Piliscsaba, Hungary) - visiting professor in our Institute of Philosophy

Philosophies of the Holocaust: New Reflections on Important Authors

The Notion of Revelation in the Context of the History of Philosophy and the Sciences

Balázs Mezei - Professor of Philosophy at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary, where he is the chair of the Philosophy department and Director of the Doctoral School of Political Philosophy.  He published more than 30 books and 150 scholarly articles on philosophy of religion, phenomenology, political and literary criticism. He organized master and doctoral programs at his home university. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Notre Dame, Georgetown University, Loyola University in Maryland, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, the Husserl Archives in Leuven, the Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, and other institutions. He is vice-president of the Hungarian Society for the Study of Religion. He has been a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the University of Notre Dame in 2015. He published Religion and Revelation after Auschwitz (Bloomsbury, 2013); he authored Illuminating Faith and Christian Wisdom Meets Modernity (both with Francesca Murphy and Kenneth Oakes, 2015 and 2016). His Radical Revelation: A Philosophical Approach was published with T&T Clark in 2017. Currently, he is editor-in-chief of The Oxford Handbook of Divine Revelation. More information: http://www.doktori.hu/index.php?menuid=192&lang=EN&sz_ID=6867