CURRICULUM VITAE Endre Kiss, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, PhD. dr. habil. Born in 1947, Debrecen, Hungary Senior Professor at the Department of Modern Philosophy of the Humanities Faculty of the Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Academic Director of the Organization for Strategic Research, Research Professsor at Kodolányi College, Programme Director of the Centre for Postmodern Studies (Budapest-Székesfehérvár).

Most important fields of research:

Philosophy of classical idealism, Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy of science, sociology of knowledge, history of ideas in Central Europe and Hungary, globalization, informational and knowledge-based society

His philosophical work divides into three periods:

In the first period, Endre Kiss focused on the history of philosophy and ideas in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and related problems of the history of philosophy and ideas in Hungary. Historical and political reasons explain why this historical interest was both of innovative and Utopian value in the second phase of state-planned socialism. Endre Kiss wrote two comprehensive works on the intellectual world of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (published: 1978 in Hungarian and 1986 in German), two monographs on Hermann Broch (the second of which appeared both in Hungarian and German) and two further books on the place of Hungarian culture in a European and specifically Central European framework at the turn of the century.

The second period of his work centered on Friedrich Nietzsche. Kiss Endre's book published in 1982 reviewed the Hungarian reception of Nietzsche's philosophy. His monography on Nietzsche's philosophy appeared in 1993. He contributed significantly to rehabilitating the status of Nietzsche's philosophy in former Communist countries so tendentiously falsified earlier by several interpreters of various persuasion.

The third period was devoted mainly to the complex problems of Eastern European and global development after 1989. The research group Kiss Endre founded in 1991 seeks to elaborate philosophical interpretations of the present. He sought to provide theoretical accounts of current changes in general and contemporary developments in philosophy in particular from a number of parallel perspectives (e.g. theory of globalization, informational society, postmodernism, everyday consciousness, contemporary problems of philosophical classification). Accounting for globalization processes from a theoretical point of view was the primary concern of these endeavours. Based on the findings of these works he has begun to work on theoretical interpretations of knowledge-based and informational society in recent years.

Degrees: University Doctor in 1975, PhD in 1977 and Doctor of Sciences (D. sc.) in 1997. He habilitated in 2000.

Fellowships, invitations: He was the first Hungarian philosopher to be awarded the Humboldt Fellowship in 1985-86. He was invited professor at Paris VIII Vincennes a Saint-Denis, received two scholarships from the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Literatur (1988, 1994), spent two longer periods of stay at the Katholische Akademie (Hamburg) and held a fellowship of the Schweizerischer Nationalfond in 1991. He studied Friedrich Nietzsche's unpublished manuscripts in Weimar (1990). He was visiting fellow working on the unpublished works of Hermann Broch at Yale University, New Haven.

Memberships in academic and non-academic bodies: He is the member of several international philosophical and scientific organizations. He is the Hungarian representative of the Internationale Hegel-Gesellschaft (1988-2000) and member of its executive board (1994-2000) as well as that of the Internationale Schopenhauer Gesellschaft and the Internationale Robert Musil Archiv (1990-1998). He is a founding member of the Förder- und Forschungsgemeinschaft Friedrich Nietzsche e.V. He is an active member of all international organizations committed to researching the work of philosophers at the centre of his interest including the Internationale Canetti, Feuerbach, Fichte, Jaspers, Scheler, Schelling and Spinoza Societies. He was founding president and later leading member of the Internationale Hermann Broch Arbeitskreis as well as that of the "Arbeitskreis für die Erforschung der mittel-europäischer Nationbildung in kultursoziologischer Schicht". He was member of the supervisory board of the Mónus Illés Academy for a Democratic Society. He is special advisor to GERM. Member of the Hungarian Association of the Club of Rome and the Academic Club "Responsibility for the Future". He heads the Árpád Kiss Archive and Memorial Room. He is founding member of the journal "Európai Utas" and member of the editorial board of Pro Philosophia. Furthermore, he is member of the research board of the American Biographical Institute Inc. and the board of the Inamori Foundation. He is council member of the Veszprém regional board of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is president of the editorial board of the journal "Új Pedagógiai Szemle" and member of the executive board of the Hungarian Pedagogical Association. He is the Hungarian representative of the College Internationale de la Philosophie. He is co-leading the research project "Nation und Nationalismus in Österreich-Ungarn". He was appointed as a member of the Presidential Advisory Board of the Hungarian EU Communication Public Foundation. He is a founding and at the first time leading member of the József Attila Society. He is member of the advisory body of the research project "Phänomen Europa. Europäische Dimensionen phänomenologischer Forschung".

In 1991, he founded and is still the president of the Hegel-Fukuyama Society. He is the academic director of the Organization for Strategic Research. He is one of the founding members of the Centre for Postmodern Studies (Budapest-Székesfehérvár).

Distinctions, awards: He received a distinction for "Excellent work" in 1984 and the Eötvös Memorial Medal in 1998. He received the prize of the journal "Valóság" in 1994. He is member of the supervisory boards of the foundations "AB Aeterno" and "Kreatív".

Budapest, 20. September 2003.