István Mészáros (philosopher)
István Mészáros | |
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Born | 19 December 1930 University of Budapest |
Spouse |
Donatella Morisi
(m. 1956; died 2007) |
Era | University of St. Andrews (1961–1966) University of Sussex (1966–1972; 1976–1995) York University (1973–1976) |
Thesis | Szatíra és valóság ("Satire and Reality")' (1955) |
Doctoral advisor | György Lukács |
Main interests | Ideology |
Notable ideas | Structural crisis of capital |
István Mészáros (
Biography
Early life in Hungary
Mészáros was born in
At the university, he affiliated himself to the so-called "
During the 1950s, Mészáros was an active member of the
Academic career in the West
Mészáros moved to Italy and was a professor at the
In late 1972, Mészáros was appointed professor of philosophy to teach political theory courses at
Mészáros collected and edited thirteen 1958–1976 essays by Philippine historian Renato Constantino in a book titled Neo-Colonial Identity and Counter-Consciousness: Essays in Cultural Decolonisation.[24] First published by Merlin Press in 1978[25] and then by M. E. Sharpe in 1979,[24] it contained a 23-page introduction,[25] which would be later re-published in Journal of Contemporary Asia as a part of a tribute done in 2000 after Constantino's death.[26][27][28]
Mészaros was appointed
In 2009, he won the Venezuelan Premio Libertador al Pensamiento Crítico ("Libertador Prize for Critical Thinking") for his work The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time.[1][29] After this work, he also published the two-volume critique of "bourgeois ideology" Social Structure and Forms of Consciousnes: The Social Determination of Method in 2010 and The Dialectic of Structure and History in 2011.[1] Following the publication of latter, he planned to write a sequel for Beyond Capital, entitled Beyond Leviathan: Critique of the State. Meszáros drafted three volumes, The Historic Challenge, The Harsh Reality, and The Necessary Alternative, with the first volume almost completed.[1] However, in 2017, he died in Margate, where he was being cared for after a stroke in September made him leave his home in Ramsgate, Kent.[2][30]
Thought
Mészáros was a critic of politicians and philosophers who constantly used the sentence "
Mészáros believed it was important to do a distinction between
Personal life
Mészáros met his Italian wife, Donatella Morisi, in 1955 in Paris; they were married on 14 February 1956; she died in 2007.[1][2] They had three children: Laura, born 1956; Susie, born 1960; and Giorgio, born 1962.[1]
Works
Book | Date | Publisher | Notes | Ref. |
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La rivolta degli intellettuali in Ungheria ("The Revolt of the Intellectuals in Hungary") | 1958 | Giulio Einaudi , Turin |
In Italian | [11] |
Attila József e l'arte moderna ("Attila József and Modern Art") | 1964 | Lerici , Milan | In Italian | [12][13] |
Marx's Theory of Alienation | 1970 | Merlin Press, London | Won the Isaac Deutscher Award | [17] |
Aspects of History and Class Consciousness | 1971 | Merlin Press, London | Editor of a series of seminars by Marxist scholars | [12][17] |
The Necessity of Social Control | 1971 | Merlin Press, London | Isaac Deutscher Memorial Lecture | [17][19] |
Lukacs' Concept of Dialectic | 1972 | Merlin Press, London | [17] | |
Neo-Colonial Identity and Counter-Consciousness: Essays in Cultural Decolonisation | 1978 | Merlin Press, London | Editor of essays by Renato Constantino | [24][25] |
The Work of Sartre: Search for Freedom | 1979 | Harvester Press, Brighton | Re-edited and expanded in 2012 as Search for Freedom and the Challenge of History by Monthly Review Press, New York | [17][19][35] |
Philosophy, Ideology and Social Science: Essays in Negation and Affirmation | 1986 | Harvester Wheatsheaf, Brighton | [17] | |
The Power of Ideology | 1989 | Harvester Wheatsheaf, Brighton | Re-edited in 2005 by Zed Books, London | [17][19] |
Beyond Capital: Toward a Theory of Transition | 1995 | Monthly Review Press , New York |
[19][35] | |
Socialism or Barbarism: From the American Century to the Crossroads | 2001 | Monthly Review Press, New York | [19][35] | |
The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time: Socialism in the Twenty-First Century | 2008 | Monthly Review Press, New York | [19][35] | |
The Structural Crisis of Capital | 2010 | Monthly Review Press, New York | [19] | |
Historical Actuality of the Socialist Offensive: Alternative to Parliamentarism | 2010 | Bookmarks Publications, Londo | [19] | |
Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, Volume I: The Social Determination of Method | 2010 | Monthly Review Press, New York | [35] | |
Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, Volume II: The Dialectic of Structure and History | 2011 | Monthly Review Press, New York | [19] | |
The Necessity of Social Control | 2014 | Monthly Review Press, New York | [19] | |
Beyond Leviathan | 2022 | Monthly Review Press, New York |
References
Footnotes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v "István Mészáros (1930–2017)". Monthly Review. 69 (7). 1 December 2017. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
- ^ a b c Brotherstone, Terry (18 November 2017). "Obituary: István Mészáros, hungarian Marxist political philosopher who taught at St Andrews". The Scotsman. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
- ^ Brotherstone 2018, p. 328.
- ^ a b Osborne 2013, p. 47–48.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Osborne 2013, p. 47.
- ISBN 9780520057425.
- ^ a b Osborne 2013, p. 48.
- ISBN 9781134864676.
- ^ Osborne 2013, p. 49.
- ^ a b c d e Bottomore, Tom; Edgeley, Roy; Lerner, Laurence (30 November 1972). "The Case of Dr. Mészáros". The New York Review of Books. 19 (30 November 1972). Retrieved 27 April 2016.
- ^ ISBN 9788849853537.
- ^ a b c Brotherstone 2018, p. 332.
- ^ a b Ferroni, Nicoletta (1995). "La fortuna di Attila József in Italia" (PDF). Rivista di Studi Ungheresi (10): 150.
- ^ a b c d Mickleburgh, Rod (29 September 1972). "Visa denial protested". The Ubyssey. 54 (6): 1. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
- ^ "Past Recipients". The Deutscher Prize Web Site. 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
- ^ "The Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize for 1970". New Society. 16 (418–431): 970. 1970.
"Deutscher Prize Goes to Istvan Meszaros". Intercontinental Press. 8: 1094. 1970.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Arthur & McCarney 1992, p. 34.
- ^ Miliband, Ralph (1971). "Alienation and the Necessity of Social Control". Socialist Register.
- ^ . Retrieved 13 October 2018.
- ^ "Profs might help Meszaros". The Ubyssey. 54 (8): 3. 6 October 1972. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
- ^ "Marxist no spy—Mackasey". The Ubyssey. 54 (14): 9. 31 October 1972. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
"Meszaros sues gov't aide". The Ubyssey. 54 (15): 2. 3 November 1972. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
- ^ a b Savage, Donald C. (1990). "Keeping Professors Out: The Immigration Department and the Idea of Academic Freedom, 1945-90". The Dalhousie Review. 69 (4): 511. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
- ^ "Meszaros returns". The Ubyssey. 54 (25): 2. 9 January 1973. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
- ^ a b c Kerkvliet, Benedict J. (1980). "Neocolonial Identity and Counter-Consciousness: Essays on Cultural Decolonization. By Renato Constantino. Edited with an introduction by Istvan Mészáros. White Plains, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1979. 307 pp. $20.00". Journal of Contemporary Asia. 39 (4): 890–891.
- ^ a b c "The Bulletin" (PDF). University of Sussex. 12 December 1978. p. 5. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
- S2CID 154358605.
- ^ "Neo-Colonial Identity and Counter-Consciousness". German National Library of Science and Technology. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
- ISBN 9780415262378.
- ^ EFE (25 June 2009). "El húngaro Mészáros gana el Premio Libertador al Pensamiento Crítico en Venezuela". Soitu.es. Micromedios Digitales.
- ^ Brotherstone 2018, p. 327.
- ^ a b c d e Arthur & McCarney 1992, p. 29.
- ^ Nell, Miranda (1 October 2013). "Book Review: The Work of Sartre: Search for Freedom and the Challenge of History by István Mészáros". LSE Review of Books. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
- ^ a b c d e Osborne 2013, p. 54.
- ^ Osborne 2013, p. 55.
- ^ a b c d e Brotherstone 2018, p. 333.
Bibliography
- Arthur, Chris; McCarney, Joseph (1992). "Marxism Today: An Interview with Istvan Meszaros" (PDF). Radical Philosophy (62): 27–34.
- Brotherstone, Terry (2018). "A Tribute to István Mészáros (1930–2017)". S2CID 150278018.
- ISBN 9781134684250.
External links
- István Mészáros Archive at Marxists.org
- "Mészáros István" – Lukács György Alapítvány