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István Mészáros

1930 - 2017

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István Mészáros (UK: , US: , Hungarian: [ˈiʃtvaːn ˈmeːsaːroʃ]; 19 December 1930 – 1 October 2017) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher. Described as "one of the foremost political philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries" by Monthly Review, Mészáros wrote mainly about the possibility of a transition from capitalism to socialism. His magnum opus, Beyond Capital: Toward a Theory of Transition (1995), was concerned not only with this theme but provided a conceptual distinction between capitalism and capital, and an analysis of the current capitalist society and its "structural crisis". He was interested in the critique of the "bourgeois ideology", including the idea of "there is no alternative", and he also elaborated analysis on the failures of "real socialism". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. István Mészáros is the 1,064th most popular philosopher (up from 1,144th in 2019), the 488th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 546th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Hungarian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, István Mészáros ranks 1,064 out of 1,267. Before him are Alois Riehl, Harald Høffding, Boris Parygin, Samuel ibn Tibbon, Friedrich Eduard Beneke, and Amina Wadud. After him are Edmund Gettier, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Fazlur Rahman Malik, Robert Spaemann, Jacob Taubes, and William Thompson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, István Mészáros ranks 360. Before him are Joachim Hansen, Alevtina Kolchina, Olene Walker, Judit Temes, Sigvard Ericsson, and Boris Parygin. After him are Abbey Lincoln, Ignazio Fabra, Helen Merrill, Barkat Gourad Hamadou, Mate Trojanović, and Edgar Basel. Among people deceased in 2017, István Mészáros ranks 304. Before him are Gösta Ekman, Victor Lanoux, Leonid Bronevoy, Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, Gilbert Baker, and Otto Warmbier. After him are François Van der Elst, Cipriano Chemello, Vitaly Churkin, Ángel Berni, Rance Howard, and Margot Hielscher.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, István Mészáros ranks 488 out of 1,077. Before him are Judit Temes (1930), Mari Törőcsik (1935), Zsuzsa Koncz (1946), János Simor (1813), Kálmán Kandó (1869), and Gyula Illyés (1902). After him are István Pelle (1907), Angelica Bella (1968), Károly Bartha (1907), Anton Seidl (1850), János Garay (1889), and Kati Kovács (1944).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Hungary

Among philosophers born in Hungary, István Mészáros ranks 6. Before him are Rudolf Steiner (1861), György Lukács (1885), Imre Lakatos (1922), Ágnes Heller (1929), and Ervin László (1932). After him are George Gerbner (1919), Thomas Sebeok (1920), Victor Basch (1863), and Stanley Jaki (1924).

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