Etela Farkašová (; born 5 October 1943) is a Slovak writer and philosopher.

Biography

Etela Farkašová was born on 5 October 1943 in

Levoča Levoča (; hu, Lőcse; rue, Левоча) is a town in the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia with a population of 14,700. The town has a historic center with a well preserved town wall, a Gothic church with the highest wooden altar in the wor ...

. She studied Mathematics and Physics at the

University of Trnava The University of Trnava (in Trnava) ( sk, Trnavská univerzita v Trnave) is one of the oldest universities in Slovakia. It is based in Trnava, in the west of Slovakia. Historical university The original Jesuit university was founded in 1635 by ...

. Following her graduation, she worked as a high school teacher. At the same time, she studied Philosophy and Sociology at the

Comenius University Comenius University in Bratislava ( sk, Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave) is the largest university in Slovakia, with most of its faculties located in Bratislava. It was founded in 1919, shortly after the creation of Czechoslovakia. It is name ...

, graduating in 1972. Since then, she has lectured at the Department of Philosophy of the Comenius University. She retired in 2010, but as of 2023 she is still active as an

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Professor of Philosophy as well as a researcher of the Center for Gender Studies at the university. She occasionally translates from German and English. As a philosopher, Farkašová is interested in

epistemology Epistemology (; ), or the theory of knowledge, is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemology is considered a major subfield of philosophy, along with other major subfields such as ethics, logic, and metaphysics. Episte ...

, in particular the relationship between philosophy and science as well as philosophy and art. From 1990s, she has developed interest in

Feminist philosophy Feminist philosophy is an approach to philosophy from a feminist perspective and also the employment of philosophical methods to feminist topics and questions. Feminist philosophy involves both reinterpreting philosophical texts and methods in ...

. She is a member of the Network of East-West Women (NEWW), the Slovak branch of

PEN club PEN International (known as International PEN until 2010) is a worldwide association of writers, founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere. The association has autonomous Internationa ...

, Österreichischer Schriftstellerverband and a co-founder of the Slovak female writer club FEMINA.

Achievements

Etela Farkašová debuted as a fiction writer in 1978 with a collection of short stories ''Reproduction of time'' (Reprodukcia času), which won the Ivan Krasko Award. She cooperated extensively with Austrian writers and was awarded a medal for developing cultural cooperation between Slovakia and Austria by the Austrian president in 2004. In 2018 she was awarded the Anasoft Litera prize for her book ''Script'' (Scenár), which discusses the possibility of living slowly in fast times. In 2018, she was additionally awarded the Crystal Wing Award in the Literature category. As of 2023, she published 14 fiction books.

References

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