Beyond Leviathan: Critique of the State - Couverture souple

Mészáros, István

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1583679499 ISBN 13 : 9781583679494

Editeur : Monthly Review Press,U.S., 2022

Synopsis

A field-defining masterwork, this posthumous publication maps the evolution of the idea of the state from ancient Greece to today

István Mészáros was one of the greatest political theorists of the twentieth century. Left unfinished at the time of his death, Beyond Leviathan is written on the magisterial scale of his previous book, Beyond Capital, and meant to complement that work. It focuses on the transcendence of the state, along with the transcendence of capital and alienated labor, while traversing the history of political theory from Plato to the present. Aristotle, More, Machiavelli, and Vico are only a few of the thinkers discussed in depth. The larger objective of this work is no less than to develop a full-edged critique of the state, in the Marxian tradition, and set against the critique of capital. Not only does it provide, for the first time, an all-embracing Marxian theory of the state, it gives new political meaning to the notion of "the withering away of the state." In his definitive, seminal work, Mészáros seeks to illuminate the political preconditions for a society of substantive equality and substantive democracy.

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À propos des auteurs

István Mészáros was a professor emeritus at the University of Sussex and a world renown philosopher and critic. He authored Marx's Theory of Alienation, Beyond Capital, and over a dozen other titles.

John Bellamy Foster is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of Monthly Review. He has written many books including The Robbery of Nature (with Brett Clark) and The Return of Nature, which won the Deutscher Memorial Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Monthly Review Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1583679499
• ISBN 13: 9781583679494
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 512
• Éditeur: Foster John Bellamy
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