Born in 1929 in Budapest, survived the Holocaust losing much of his family in Nazi concentration camps. He studied philosophy at Budapest as a disciple of Georg Lukacs. After lengthy political reprisals was exiled to Australia, where he taught at the Trobe University. In 1986 he went to New York where he is now professor of philosophy of Hannah Arendt Chair of the New School of Social Research. Currently also teaches in Budapest and Szeged. Among his many works, many of them translated into Castilian, include Aristotle's Ethics and the Antique Ethos, Renaissance Man, Everyday Life, The Theory of Needs in Marx, A Theory of Feelings, Radical Philosophy, Beyond Justice, The Power of Shame, A Theory of History, Modernity Can survive ?, General Ethics, A philosophy of Morals and Ethics of Personality