Maria Márkus

Maria Renata Márkus (1936–2017) was a Polish sociologist and philosopher. She was educated in philosophy at the Lomonosov University in Moscow from 1952 to 1957 and was awarded her master's degree in Poland in 1957. She moved to Hungary in 1957 and became a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and was a founding member of the Institute of Sociology at the academy

She was a member of the “Budapest School” of Marxism, Márkus, along with other members of the School, lost her academic position on ideological and political grounds.

She was a "friend and intellectual ally of Agnes Heller". Markus was married to Hungarian philosopher György Márkus.

Selected publications Markus, M. R. (2010), 'Can solitude be recaptured for the sake of intimacy?', in H. Blatterer, P. Johnson & M. R. Markus (eds), Modern privacy: shifting boundaries, new forms, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 88–101. Markus, M. R. (2010), 'Lovers and friends: 'radical utopias' of intimacy?', Thesis Eleven, vol. 101, pp. 6–23. Markus, M. R. (2002), 'Cultural pluralism and the subversion of the 'taken-for-granted' world', in P. Essed & D. T. Goldberg (eds), Race Critical Theories: Text and Context, Oxford: Blackwell. Markus, M. R. (2001), 'Decent society and/or civil society?', Social Research, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 1011–1030. Markus, M. R. (1995), 'Civil society and the politicisation of needs', in K. Gavroglu, J. Stachel & M. W. Wartofsky (eds), Science, Politics and Social Practice, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic, pp. 161–179. Markus, M (1987), 'The 'anti-feminism' of Hannah Arendt', Thesis Eleven, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 76–87. Markus, M (1985), 'Women, success, and civil society: submission to, or subversion of, the achievement principle', PRAXIS International, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 430–444. Markus, M (1982), 'Overt and convert modes of legitimation in East European Societies', in T. H. Rigby & F Fehér, Political legitimation in communist states, pp. 82–93.