The Power of Ideology - Couverture souple

Meszaros, Istvan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1842773151 ISBN 13 : 9781842773154

Editeur : Zed Books Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

"In these times of despondency ... one feels the need for a reconsideration of the socialist project perceived at once in its historical perspective and its global context. Istvan Meszaros provides such a timely, fundamental reassessment in his major work, The Power of Ideology .. a very rich volume ... a magnum opus ... Meszaros can write with wit and verve. He is devastating in polemics and brilliant in exposition. Here is a book showing that Marxism is alive and creative, one of those not very frequent works laying the foundations on which we can build our strategies and tactics. And coming at the right time when we badly need to go back to essentials." - Daniel Singer, Monthly Review "Meszaros provides us with a panoramic view of contemporary ideology and its objective roots, integrating a vast amount of material from philosophy, politics and economics ... he points to the blinkers imposed on thought by a focus on advanced capitalism: things look different when the Third World is brought into the picture ... Meszaros knows his Hegel, Marx, Lenin and Lukacs inside and out; only on this basis is his penetrating criticism offered; and it is to be taken all the more seriously…There is a lot of food for thought here." - Chris Arthur, Critique "..passionately inspired by sympathy for the downtrodden and their struggle for liberation ..." - The Nation, USA "Meszaros‘s work, without exaggeration, represents the most substantive and systematic analysis accomplished since Marx." - El Ojo del Huracan, Venezuela "Meszaros is surprisingly accessible despite the philosophical depth and intellectual richness of his work." - Canadian Dimension, Canada

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Istvan Meszaros is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Sussex. His major works -- several of which have been translated into a number of other languages -- in political philosophy include: Marx's Theory of Alienation (Merlin Press, 1970, and Harper Torch, USA) The Work of Sartre: Search for Freedom (Harvest Press, 1979) Philosophy, Ideology and the Social Sciences: Essays in Negotaition and Affirmation (Harvester Press, 1986) The Power of Ideology (Wheatsheaf Publishers, Brighton and New York University Press, New York, 1989) Beyond Capital (Merlin Press, London and Monthly Review Press, New York, 1995). Born in Hungary in 1930, Istvan Meszaros became a student of George Lukacs and in late 1956 his chosen intellectual successor. As early as 1949 he had been threatened with expulsion from college for his public defence of Lukacs who was under attack by the Hungarian Communist Party at the time. A lifelong socialist and Marxist, Meszaros argued from a very early age in favour a genuine socialist transformation of society and against Soviet-style bureaucratic dictatorship. Forced into exile when the USSR overthrew the Hungarian government in 1956, he taught at first at the University of Turin in Italy. In 1959, he moved to the UK where he held a succession of posts at Bedford College (University of London), the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and the University of Sussex (with a small break, 1972-77, as Professor of Philosophy at York University in Canada). 'His powerful prose, brilliant argument and caustic humour' (Canadian Dimension) has been described as 'passionately inspired by sympathy for the downtrodden and their struggle for liberation' (The Nation, USA) and 'without exaggeration, represents the most substantive and systematic analysis accomplished since Marx' (El Ojo del Huracan, Venezuela).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Zed Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1842773151
• ISBN 13: 9781842773154
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 616
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible