Can the philosophy (and any social science) have social relevance or is it only the business of scholars? Does an intellectual have to – or can an intellectual – play a public role or he or she is predestined to formulate (often unpractical) theses that are taught at the university? The author addresses this question on the occasion of the centenary Sartre-conference organised in Rome.

Neoliberalism and the European social democracyon the national economic policies in West-Europe and North-America, where these models replaced Keynesiasm and the theoretical basis of socialist-social democratic parties and the North-American progressive parties. The collapse of communism in Central-East-Europe significantly impacted on the social democratic ideology and practice; it accelerated the disintegration of the so called "German model". The end of the social democratic Keynesiasm and the maintenance of the welfare systems that are becoming more and more marked-based, empty the welfare regulations and the regulation of the labour market.

Table of contents

1. Sziklai László : The poet of impressive appearance. Attila József and alienation
2. Agárdi Péter : Does this century look upon Attila József with support? The reception horizon of the beginning of the 21st century and the leftism of Attila József at the occasion of the book on Consciousness by György Tverdota
3. Mike Cole : F*** you, bastard! The recent capitalism of the globalization and the racism and xenophobia against refugees
4. Böröcz József : Thought experiment on global distribution
5. Wang Hui : The idea of the new Asianism. World history – through Asian eyes
6. Rövid Márton László : Culture et conflits
7. Christian Mailhes : Postcolonial politics and state violence in Southern Sudan
8. Roland Lew : The hidden driving force of dynamic development in China
9. Gyóni Gábor : The Chechen conflict
10. Ju. A. Nyikiforov : The myth of the preventive war. G. K. Zhukov’s plan of 15 May 1941: the problems of the interpretation
11. Zsigmond Anna : Two marquis: Custine and Tocqueville. Russia and America from Europe in the 19th century
12. Kiss Viktor : The system of technologies. The problems of value and consumption in the “technocratic society”
13. T. Zselenszky Péter : The apotheosis of the homelessness. Dialogues of Diogenides – Pro Logos (excerpt)

According to Attila József "Marx's perception of history considered of four facts when he came stepped up. They were the principle of the historical development (Hegel), the new industrial technology, the working class unrest under its burden and the so-called utopian socialism, which was peaceful not militant, and which had a general human nature instead of proletarian one." In his opinion the socialism of the Marxism is humanism. "It is humanism but precisely the most human phenomena – mental disorders and neuroses – cannot be understood through it." – he says. That is why he turns to Freud and psychoanalysis.

What do commonplaces, phrases, axioms, sentences from the poems of Attila József express of our age? And regarding his oeuvre, what is the actual situation with the system criticising socialism, once stiffed like a statue and later "chastely" suppressed? The author analyses the views of Attila József on the world historical, "ontological" relationships between the working class, class conflict and high-level arts.