PHILOSOPHER

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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of István Mészáros has received more than 6,515 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. István Mészáros is the 1,144th most popular philosopher, the 546th most popular biography from Hungary and the 8th most popular Hungarian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, István Mészáros ranks 1,144 out of 1,267. Before him are Ada Adler, Liang Shuming, Marshall Berman, Allan Bloom, Charondas, and Barbara Cassin. After him are W. D. Ross, Eduardo Lourenço, Homi K. Bhabha, Dieter Henrich, Abram Deborin, and William Thompson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, István Mészáros ranks 408. Before him are Pavel Schmidt, Grace Lee Whitney, Allan Bloom, John Romita Sr., Smail Hamdani, and Alan Shugart. After him are Suat Mamat, Terence Bayler, Gladys West, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Ora Namir, and Zdeněk Mlynář. Among people deceased in 2017, István Mészáros ranks 362. Before him are Colin Groves, Heather Menzies, Terele Pávez, Aleksei Petrenko, Paula Fox, and Smail Hamdani. After him are Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Dina Merrill, Rodrigo Valdez, Attilio Nicora, Joseph Bologna, and Vladimir Levenshtein.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, István Mészáros ranks 546 out of 1,077. Before him are József Katona (1791), Victor Varconi (1891), István Csom (1940), Tibor Kemény (1913), Dezső Földes (1880), and Ágnes Hranitzky (1945). After him are István Fekete (1900), István Bilek (1932), Károly Kisfaludy (1788), Ferenc Mészáros (1950), Menyhért Lónyay (1822), and István Géczi (1944).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Hungary

Among philosophers born in Hungary, István Mészáros ranks 8. Before him are György Lukács (1885), Imre Lakatos (1922), Ágnes Heller (1929), Ervin László (1932), Victor Basch (1863), and George Gerbner (1919). After him are Thomas Sebeok (1920), and Stanley Jaki (1924).

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