Kirkham, Pat, ed. 2013. Eva Zeisel: Life, Design, and Beauty. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. 255 pp. Illus.

Kirkham, Pat, ed. 2013. Eva Zeisel: Life, Design, and Beauty. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. 255 pp. Illus. Reviewed by Judith Szapor, McGill Universit

Karl Polanyi in Budapest: On his political and intellectual formation

Copyright © Archives Européennes de Sociologie 2009.A major thinker and inspiring teacher, Karl Polanyi's contributions have long been influential in a variety of disciplines, notably economic sociology and economic history. Two of his innovations, substantivist economic anthropology and the “double movement thesis,” are recognized as seminal. All of the works for which he is known, however, were written late in life, when in exile, and very little is known of his Hungarian writings, virtually none of which had, until now, been translated. Despite his fame, the biographical literature on Polanyi remains modest: some studies provide invaluable insights, yet all are brief. This article attempts to make some headway in remedying these lacunae. It sketches the contours of that extraordinary historical-geographical conjuncture in which he was formed, and explores his intellectual and political engagements in the Galilei Circle and the Radical Bourgeois Party. It seeks in particular to elucidate the complex roles played by questions of nation, ethnicity and class in the life of the young Karl Polanyi

Disputed Past: The Friendship and Competing Memories of Anna Lesznai and Emma Ritoók

This paper is part of a larger research project that explores the contributions of women intellectuals to the nationalistic, anti-liberal rhetoric of the early 1920s and the gendered aspect of the official ideology of the Horthy-era. The paper probes the connection of the personal and the political by exploring the shared history and competing memories of two woman writers, Anna Lesznai (1885-1966) and Emma Ritoók (1868-1945). The writers were friends and founding members of the Sunday Circle in 1915 but ended up in opposite camps during the 1918-19 revolutions. Ritoók, with Cécile Tormay, became a champion of the counter-revolution, contributing to its anti-Semitic ideology and rhetoric. Lesznai, the wife of Oszkár Jászi and a supporter of the Republic of Councils, was forced to flee and she spent the rest of her life in exile. Their diaries and autobiographical novels reflect the two writers’ diagonally opposing perspectives on their past and their shared intellectual and spiritual home, the Sunday Circle. The juxtaposition of their respective biographies and literary works offers insight into the process of re-interpreting and re-writing the past, whether for personal or political ends. It also illustrates the broader contours and irreparable breach between the Left and the nationalistic Right in Hungarian political and intellectual life after 1919

Nye, Mary Jo. Michael Polanyi and His Generation; Origins of the Social Construction of Science

Reviewed by Judith Szapo

Kisebbségi csoportok a Meseország mindenkié című mesekönyvben – reprezentáció és a médiában megjelent kritikák

Szakdolgozatomban a Meseország mindenkié című mesekönyv tartalmát és a hazai médiában megjelent kritikáját vizsgáltam. A szakirodalom segítségével a kisebbségi csoportok – elsősorban az LMBTQ+ csoport – reprezentációjának témáját taglaltam, ezután a meséket és a kapcsolódó kritikákat mutattam be. Vizsgálódásom végén arra jutottam, hogy többféle narratíva is létezik az említett közösséggel kapcsolatban, természetükben egymástól eltérőek, aminek megfelelően a kritikák tartalma sem homgén