Anna Varga-Jani has been researching twentieth-century philosophy in general and its reflections on the religious phenomena for more than ten years now. During her doctorate, she was a guest researcher in the Husserl-Archive and in the Edith Stein-Archive in Cologne. She defended her dissertation at the Eötvös Lorand University in Budapest in June 2013. Her thesis was published by the German publishing house Königshausen & Neumann in 2015. She had been on maternity leave for two years between 2015 and 2017. From 2005 to 2017 she was a visiting lecturer on the Faculty of Philosophy at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Piliscsaba, and on the Faculty of Philosophy at the Eötvös Lorand University in Budapest. From 2012 to 2017 she was a doctoral and postdoctoral researcher in the Research Group for Hermeneutics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2017 she was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Research Group Self-Interpretation, Emotion, Narrative of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. From 2017 to 2020 she was a postdoctoral researcher of the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund of Hungary on the Faculty of Philosophy, at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Piliscsaba. From 2020, she is an assistant professor at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Philosophy.
Topic: “Collective Reality and the Role of Individuality. Ethical Dimensions in the Reality-Constitution”
Abstract: The research project, “Collective Reality and the Role of Individuality. Ethical Dimensions in the Reality-Constitution” is basic research, but in several senses, it has applied aspects as well. The importance of the philosophical tendency of the question on the reality opens up in the phenomenological intention on the thing, during the analysis of its material and theoretical strata, but this reality-claim is formulated in the question on being, or in the hermeneutical question on the relationship between the social realities and the reality-theories of the phenomenology. The aim of the present research is to disclose the linkage between the philosophical description of the social and temporal dimensions of reality and the ethical and historical consequences of these philosophical dimensions.
The fundamental question of the present research is, how this thesis on reality appears in the practical ethical questions on reality as a philosophical question, and, whether there is a linkage between this ethical question on reality and the philosophy’s constitutional problem of the thing. It follows from this question, how the idea of the plurality of reality appeared in the 20th Century’s philosophical thinking.
