Csaba (1946) is a sociologist and h. associate professor. He is the president of the Institute for Strategic Research in Budapest, Hungary. He graduated from the Department of Sociology at Eötvös Loránd Science University in the first half of the 1980s and studied full time at the Institute for Executive Training for two years.
He teaches regularly at the University of Pannon, Budapest Economic College, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, and Századvég Political School and is joint president of an e-Government Research Group and leader of the Future Research and Development Center at University of Pannonia. For this University he wrote six university curriculums in the following subjects: globalisation/localisation, information society and the theory and practice of e-administration. He is a member of many knowledge groups like the Swedish Kreaprenör, the Noetic Advanced Studies Institute at the USA, the German-Hungarian Philosophical Society and the Austrian European Network for the Study of Globalisation, etc.
Csaba’s research areas are: village and town research (1972-), area structure research (1986-), futures research and strategy (1976-), theory of conservatism (1992-1995), globalisation and localisation (1993-), theory of information society (1993-), knowledge society (1995-), metatheory and metaphilosophy, theory of the new science (2002-). At Institute for Strategic Research he presently leads the metatheory-metaphilosophy research group.
Csaba Varga has started his career as a sociologist and sociographer in the 70s, and published his first selected essays at the end of 80s. In the middle of 80s his brief Hungarian utopia titled Reform Castle – written together with István Kamarás – has made a big impression on the Hungarian intellectual scene. He was engaged in the Hungarian political transitions (1989-1990), but he criticized this political turn at that time, finding strategically inadequate the choice of past capitalist world model, when the global world had been entering the information age. So it was no accident that in the 90s he was known as a prominent theorist of the information and knowledge society, but his interest also turned to theoretical and philosophical questions. In the new millennium he focused on generating the metatheory-metaphilosophy, in which sciences, religions and arts are unified. He stresses the interdisciplinary nature of metatheory, and does not stop at the traditional boundaries of science. So Csaba Varga cannot be classified in the traditional sense into any intellectual boxes. He is a theorist who likes experimenting, invents a new language in order to integrate knowledge and to reveal new theoretical horizons.
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