Kristóf Nyíri

Kristóf Nyíri (born 1944), is a Hungarian philosopher. He is a member of HAS, was a guest at the University of Leipzig in the Winter Semester of 2006-2007 as Leibniz Professor, directed Communications in the 21st Century: The Mobile Information Society from 2001 to 2010, and is a Professor of Philosophy, in the Department of Technical Education, at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He has written and edited more than 200 articles, chapters, reports and books (his work from the late 1960s to 2001, was published under the name "J. C. Nyíri").

His initial areas of interest were Austrian intellectual history, and the theory of conservatism. In the 1980s, he began to study the philosophical question of tradition as a cognitive issue and as an issue in social philosophy. He later became interested in the cultural history of communication technologies, and more recently he studies the philosophy of images and time.

He is well known for his work on mental imagery, his interpretations of Wittgenstein’s later work, and the application of his philosophy to mobile communication. Provided by Wikipedia