István Mészáros

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István Mészáros (born 1930) is a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Sussex. 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.

He can be linked to the so-called Budapest school, a group of Hungarian philosophers who where taught or influenced by Georg Lukács, including Ágnes Heller and György Márkus.

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Attila Jozsef 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)
Comenius and Hungary (1973) editor with Eva Foldes
Neo-colonial Identity and Counter-consciousness: Essays in Cultural Decolonisation (1978) with Renato Constantino
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: Alternative To Capital's Social Order: From The American Century To The Crossroads (2001)