Dear all:  I received this email and the attached information about the
attacks on dissident philosophy professors in Hungary from a political
scientist friend who is concerned about the repression of free thought and
the rise of anti-Semitism there.  Please forward this information to other
interested contacts.

Ann Ferguson

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Date: Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:58 AM
Subject: keiha to ann: NEW BAD NEWS: philosophers in HUNGARY
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Ann, As you know I follow political events in the CZ and HU with particular
interest. Sadly, there has been a sharp turn to the right and a restoration
of autocratic/authoritarian  government practices in Hungary, redolent of
some of the worse practices before 1990. Three of the most troubling
interventions of the "new" Fidesz government concern unveiled attacks on
freedom of the press and on academics--both of which have been frosted with
 antisemitism or, as it was historically referred to in
Hungary,"cosmopolitanism" and less obviously, gender bias.

Please read the text attached below--and forward it widely to as many
philosophy networks as possible for publication here and your many contacts
abroad.
In the event there may emerge a petition NYRB style, would you be so kind as
to send me a list of your professional associations and contacts to whom
further info could be sent directly?

Thanks,

Keitha S. Fine Phd
East European Cultural Endowment, Ltd

ps: I also attached a background piece from The Huff Post dated June 2010,
after the most recent national elections in HU.
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-- 
Ann Ferguson
Professor emerita of Philosophy and Women's Studies UMass Amherst and
feminist activist