Attila KOVÁCS

Associate Professor
Department of Social Sciences and Communication
Faculty of Sociology and Communication

Contact:

Eroilor 25, Brașov, Romania
Building T, Room TII9
Phone.: 
E-mail: attila.kovacs@unitbv.ro

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Research interests:

  • Phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger)
  • Selfhood, Otherness and the Boundaries of the Self
  • Postmodern Subjectivity and the Dissolution of the Ego
  • Simulacra, Hyperreality and Virtual Heterotopias (Baudrillard, Foucault)
  • Philosophy of Technology, Consumption and Digital Culture
  • Gaming Addiction and Reflective Control
  • Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Publications (selection)

  • Kovács, A. (2026). Reflective Control in Gaming Addiction: A Paradox? Human Arenas. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s42087-026-00680-5.
  • Kovács, A. (2026). Relevance of Reflective Control Disruption in Gaming Addiction for Gamification and Digital Policy. In A. Kavoura et al. (Eds.), Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism (Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, pp. 11–20). Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-12968-0_2.
  • Kovács, A. (2024). In Search of the Self. Modalities of the Disappearing Ego in the Postmodern Period. Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană.
  • Kovács, A. (2019). The Boundaries of the Self and the Limits of the World in Aristotle. Studia UBB. Philosophia, 64(2), 197–207.
  • Kovács, A. (2017). The Other is Dead. Studia UBB. Philosophia, 62(2), 39–59.
  • Kovács, A. (2016). Selfhood at the Fragile Border of (Ab)normality. Studia UBB. Philosophia, 61(3), 5–22.