István Mészáros is a Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 Marxist philosopher, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Sussex

University of Sussex

The University of Sussex is an English public research university situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove. The University received its Royal Charter in August 1961....

. He held the Chair of Philosophy at Sussex for fifteen years and was earlier Professor of Philosophy and Social Science for four years at York University

York University

York University is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, Ontario's second-largest graduate school, and Canada's leading interdisciplinary university....

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He can be linked to the so-called "Budapest school", a group of Hungarian philosophers who were taught or influenced by Georg Lukács

Georg Lukács

György Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic. He is a founder of the tradition of Western Marxism. He contributed the concept of reification to Marxist philosophy and theory and expanded Karl Marx's theory of class consciousness. Lukács' was also an influential literary...

, including Ágnes Heller

Ágnes Heller

Ágnes Heller is a Hungarian philosopher. A prominent Marxist thinker at first, she moved onto a liberal, social-democratic position later in her career...

 and György Márkus

György Márkus

György Márkus is a Hungarian philosopher, a student of Lukács and a member of the "Budapest School" of socialist philosophy. He completed his philosophical training at Lomonosov University in Moscow in 1957...

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He left his native Hungary in 1956 after the Soviet invasion and worked for a time in Turin

Turin

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, Italy

Italy

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 before settling in the UK.

Works

• Attila Jozsef
  Attila József
  Attila József was one of the most important and well-known Hungarian poets of the 20th century.-Biography:The son of Áron József, a soap factory worker of Romanian origin from Bánát, and Hungarian peasant girl Borbála Pőcze, he was born in Ferencváros, a poor district of Budapest. He had two elder...
  
   e l'arte moderna (1964)
• Marx's Theory of Alienation (1970)
• Aspects of History and Class Consciousness (1971) editor
• The Necessity Of Social Control (1971) Isaac Deutscher Memorial Lecture
• Lukacs' Concept of Dialectic (1972)
• “From `The Legend of Truth' to a 'True Legend': Phases of Satre's Development”. Telos 25 (Fall 1975). New York: Telos Press.
• Neo-colonial Identity and Counter-consciousness: Essays in Cultural Decolonisation (1978) with Renato Constantino
  Renato Constantino
  Renato Constantino was an influential Filipino historian. He was a known leftist historian of the Philippines. He is the father-in-law of political commentator Randy David.-Works:*The Philippines: A Past Revisited...
  
  
• The Work of Sartre: Search for Freedom (1979)
• Philosophy, Ideology and Social Science: Essays in Negation and Affirmation (1986)
• The Power of Ideology (1989) new edition 2005
• Beyond Capital : Toward a Theory of Transition (1994)
• Socialism Or Barbarism
  Socialism Or Barbarism
  Socialism or Barbarism is a book about globalism, U.S. socialism and capitalist systems by Hungarian Marxist philosopher and Professor Emeritus István Mészáros...
  
  : Alternative To Capital's Social Order: From The American Century To The Crossroads (2001)
• The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time: Socialism in the Twenty-First Century (2008)
• Historical Actuality Of The Socialist Offensive (2009)
• The Structural Crisis of Capital (2009)
• Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, Volume I: The Social Determination of Method (2010)
• Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, Volume II: The Dialectic of Structure and History (2011)

External links

• Mészáros-archive at Marxists.org