LAJOS SZABÓ (1902-1967)
thinker and artist






German/Deutsch

Hungarian/Magyar

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Drawings and photos of Lajos Szabó

Writings

All texts in Hungarian available here

Books:

Logic of faith – Theocentric Logic 1. (1937)
Chapter VI. Will - Critique of the criticism
Chapter VII. Sign and image

Theocentric Logic 2. (1948, published posthumously)

Indictment against the Spirit (with Béla Tábor)

Table of contents in English

The seminars of 1946–1950 (in Hungarian)

notes by Attila Kotányi and György Kunszt

A short summary of Szabó's theory of signs
(Selection from Theocentric Logic/2 and from the texts of his seminar on the theory of signs)

Essays:

Mammonism - a Natural History
translated by István Cziegler

LEAD OR FOLLOW! (Shorter writings/1)

6 shorter writings
translated by István Cziegler

Conscience
Genius
Mammon

On Philosophy
On Kant
Identity

The Intersection between the vast forces of theism and atheism (Shorter writings/2)

5 shorter writings
translated by István Cziegler

Nietzsche – About the conduct of our selves in the presence of great thinkers

Contributions to the Role of Scientifik Socialism and its Unknown Features, 1936-38
Some Remarks on the Criticism of Marxism, 1934
Some Remarks on the Criticism of Scientifik Socialism, 1938

Contributions to the Problems of Set Theory

Kunst und Religion (Művészet és vallás – Art and religion) in German

Other essays (in Hungarian):

Biblia és romantika
(Bible and romanticism)


Adalékok a halmazelmélet kérdéseihez
(Contributions to the problems of set theory)


Irodalom és rémület
(Literature and fright)


Trinitárius világfelfogás
(The Trinitarian Worldview)


„Teizmus és ateizmus roppant erőinek kereszteződése”
(The crossing of the immense forces of theism and atheism)

Shorter writings/2.

Notes on aesthetics:
Az 1943-as Vajda Lajos emlékkiállításra (On the Memorial Exhibition of Lajos Vajda held in 1943)

The artist

Drawings 1957-1967, a selection

Exhibitions:

Presence-of-Mind Calligraphies

the Budapest Exhibition in May, 2011 (Gallery 2B)

curated by Ágnes Horváth, Balázs Szendrői and László Böröcz,
Extracts from Lajos Szabó's writings selected by Ádám Tábor,
multimedia: János Bali.


On-line catalogue of the Exhibition
Asaf Uri's Opening in Hungarian

Opening musical performance:
János Bali: Calligraphy


the Eger Exhibition in October, 2011 (Ars GEometrica Art&Science Gallery)


curated by Kálmán Liptai, Kristóf Fenyvesi, Ibolya Szilágyi, Ágnes Horváth, Balázs Szendrői
Extracts from Lajos Szabó's writings selected by Ádám Tábor

"Axiomatics is poetry: the Weighing of words" –
Lectures and informal discussion on the works of Lajos Szabó
8th November 2011, Eger, Ars GEometrica

Documents of some earlier exhibitions

Catalogue of the 1980 exhibition in Budapest with an Introduction by György Kunszt (in Hungarian and German)

The exhibition was curated by Dániel Bíró and Botond Kocsis.

The catalogue of the joint exhibitions in Budapest (1997) and Düsseldorf (1998) curated by Attila Kotányi


is not yet available. (For some writings see next column.)

Precedents:

Some pages from Jaspers' book on Nietzsche with the marginal notes of Lajos Szabó

„Thursday Conversations” (1945-1947)
led by
Béla Hamvas, Lajos Szabó and Béla Tábor

Ádám Tábor:
Concourse at the centre

Lajos Vajda and Lajos Szabó

A montage of Lajos Vajda using a photo of Lajos Szabó



Some further documents in Hungarian

More about the Budapest Dialogical School here.

Writings about Lajos Szabó

In English

László Surányi - Ádám Tábor
The Budapest Dialogical School

Ádám Tábor
Concourse at the centre

Mia Shandell
Rhythm and Tone in the Calligraphy of Lajos Szabó


In French

A poem by Paul Chaulot
from the catalogue of the exhibition in Paris, 1966

Ágnes Horváth
Un penseur peintre : Lajos Szabó (1902 – 1967) et un peintre penseur : Lajos Vajda (1908 – 1941)


In German

Béla Tábor
Lajos Szabós spekulative Zeichenkunst*

EIKON – Die spekulativen graphischen Bildschriften von Lajos Szabó
(Deutsch-Ungarisch) Texte von und über/Texts by and about L. Szabó, ausgew./selected by A. Kotányi

Béla Hamvas
Anklageschfrift gegen den Geist
Rezension, (Indictment against the Spirit, a review translated to German)*

Stefánia Mándy
Lajos Szabó oder die Avantgarde uralten Glaubens*

Kunszt György
Zur Eröffnung der Graphikaustellung von Lajos Szabó im Jahre 1980*

Magda Huszár
Blitzschlag und Regenbogen*


In Hungarian

Béla Tábor
Szabó Lajosról
(On Lajos Szabó)

Stefánia Mándy
Szabó Lajost megérteni
(To understand Lajos Szabó)

Antal Szerb
Review of the book Vádirat a szellem ellen (Indictment against the spirit) in the periodical ”Nyugat„ (West), 1937 htm | pdf

* Texts published or republished in EIKON – Texte neu oder nachgedruckt in EIKON

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October, 2011
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