ABSTRACT
Laszlo Tengelyi was a Hungarian philosopher who was educated and initially taught at Eotvos-Lorand-University in Budapest before becoming chair of philosophy at Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany, in 2001. Tengelyi published extensively in Hungarian, German, French, and English. From a focus on Critical philosophy and Phenomenology in his dissertation and early writings, his interests broadened to themes in ancient and medieval philosophy. World and Infinity is the longest and most ambitious of Tengelyi’s works, tracing problems in phenomenology back to authors such as Aristotle, Plotinus, Duns Scotus, and Suarez and engaging with Post-Kantian German Philosophy. It is defining Tengleyi’s approach that rather than focusing the moment an action is initiated, a phenomenological account of action should take into view a much larger share of the agent’s experience.
