Philosopher Agnes Heller, a dissident under Hungary's communist regime and later a prominent critic of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, died Friday at the age of 90, the Hungarian National Academy of Sciences said. Heller, who was a member of the body and a professor at the New School for Social Research in New York "died at the age of 90 on July 19," it said in a statement.
According to Hungarian news website 444.hu, Heller had not returned from a swim in Lake Balaton in the southwest of the country. Born in Budapest in 1929, Heller studied under one of Hungary's most prominent 20th-century thinkers, the Marxist philosopher Georg Lukas (1885-1971). She was a key member of the "Budapest School" that emerged following the bloody crushing of a 1956 uprising against Soviet rule.
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