{"title":"Books by Istvan Meszaros","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780853458814","title":"Beyond Capital","description":"In Beyond Capital, the internationally esteemed Marxist philosopher István Mészáros provides a major contribution to the task of reassessing the socialist alternative and the conditions for its realization in the light of twentieth-century developments and disappointments. Mészáros brings original Marxist thinking to bear on the most fundamental issue facing the left: how to move theoretically Beyond Capital-beyond the project that Marx began and which he articulated under a specific form of commodity capitalism, as well as beyond the power of capital itself.Steeped in the philosophical roots and revolutionary world outlook of early Marxism, broad in scope and stunning in its erudition, Beyond Capital brilliantly challenges the European-based conceptual framework of socialist theory and begins the urgent task of elaborating a new socialist theory of transition.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294995624309,"sku":"9780853458814","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780853458814_7894cec3-584f-4a2f-a8ac-db26e13c8093.jpg?v=1786015840"},{"product_id":"9781583679494","title":"Beyond Leviathan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA field-defining masterwork, this posthumous publication maps the evolution of the idea of the state from ancient Greece to today \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIstván Mészáros was one of the greatest political theorists of the twentieth century. Left unfinished at the time of his death, \u003ci\u003eBeyond Leviathan\u003c\/i\u003e is written on the magisterial scale of his previous book, \u003ci\u003eBeyond Capital, \u003c\/i\u003eand 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304877240693,"sku":"9781583679494","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781583679494_a12434e1-5f64-43e2-ba62-3231bc2cfa45.jpg?v=1786023270"},{"product_id":"the-necessity-of-social-control","title":"The Necessity of Social Control","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs John Bellamy Foster writes in his foreword to the present book, “István Mészáros is one of the greatest philosophers that the historical materialist tradition has yet produced. His work stands practically alone today in the depth of its analysis of Marx’s theory of alienation, the structural crisis of capital, the demise of Soviet-style post-revolutionary societies, and the necessary conditions of the transition to socialism. His dialectical inquiry into social structure and forms of consciousness—a systematic critique of the prevailing forms of thought—is unequaled in our time.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMészáros is the author of magisterial works like \u003cem\u003eBeyond Capital\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSocial Structures of Forms of Consciousness\u003c\/em\u003e, but his work can seem daunting to those unacquainted with his thought. Here, for the first time, is a concise and accessible overview of Mészáros’s ideas, designed by the author himself and covering the broad scope of his work, from the shortcomings of bourgeois economics to the degeneration of the capital system to the transition to socialism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57484256412021,"sku":"9781583675380","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781583675380.jpg?v=1786266307"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-istvan-meszaros.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}