Gáspár Miklós Tamás
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Gáspár Miklós Tamás (G. M. Tamás; Hungarian: Tamás Gáspár Miklós; 28 November 1948, Cluj – 15 January 2023, Budapest), often referred to as TGM, was a Romanian-born Hungarian marxist-anarcho-syndicalist philosopher and public intellectual. He was a contributor to online newspaper Mérce and OpenDemocracy, where he wrote primarily about political and aesthetic questions. He was the father of British poet and writer Rebecca Tamás.
Books
- A teória esélyei: esszék, bírálatok [The Prospects for Theory: Essays and Reviews], Bucharest: Kriterion, 1975, 204 pp. (Hungarian)
- A csöndes Európa, Budapest: AB Független, 1982, 14 pp. (Hungarian)
- A szem és a kéz: bevezetés a politikába, samizdat (Budapest: ABC), 1983, 73 pp. (Hungarian)
- L’Œil et la main: introduction à la politique [The Eye and the Hand: Introduction to Politics], trans. Julia Kovács, Geneva: Noir, 1985, 99 pp. (French)
- Republikánus elmélkedések, Malakoff, France: Dialogues européens, 1983, 160 pp. (Hungarian)
- Censorship: Ethnic Discrimination and the Culture of the Hungarians in Romania, Vienna: Internationale Helsinki-Föderation für Menschenrechte, 1985, 40 pp. Report. [1] (English)
- Idola Tribus: A nemzeti érzés erkölcsi lényege. Vázlat a hagyományról. Az értékválság legendája, Malakoff, France: Dialogues européens, 1989, iii+316 pp. (Hungarian)
- Les idoles de la tribu. L'essence morale du sentiment national, trans. Georges Kassaï (pseud. of Véronique Charaire), Paris: Arcantère, 1991, 238 pp. (French)
- Törzsi fogalmak [Tribal Concepts], 2 vols, Budapest: Atlantisz, 1999, 383+451 pp. Extended version. (Hungarian)
- Idola tribus: esenţa morală a sentimentului naţional, trans. Marius Tabacu and Ştefan Borbély, Cluj-Napoca: Dacia, 2001, 304 pp. (Romanian)
- Másvilág. Politikai esszék [Another World: Political Essays], Budapest: Új Mandátum, 1994, 610 pp. (Hungarian)
- A helyzet. Szatirikus röpirat, Élet és Irodalom, 2002, 80 pp. (Hungarian)
- Către cel căzut pe gînduri, trans. Alexandru Polgár, Cluj-Napoca: Idea Design & Print, 2004, 61 pp. Trans. of "Levél a töprengőhöz". (Romanian)
- RAF. Búcsúszimfónia (with Jácint Legéndy and György Szitányi), Bratislava: Kalligram, 2009, 81 pp. (Hungarian)
- Innocent Power / Die unschuldige Macht, trans. Barbara Hess, Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz (documenta13), 2011, 23 pp. (English)/(German)
- Postfascism şi anticomunism: intervenţii filosofico-politice', trans. Teodora Dumitru and Attila Szigeti, Cluj-Napoca: Tact, 2014, 206 pp. Selected essays and interviews. TOC. (Romanian)
- Kommunismus nach 1989: Beiträge zu Klassentheorie, Realsozialismus und Osteuropa [Communism after 1989: Contributions to Class Theory, Real Socialism and Eastern Europe], ed. & trans. Gerold Wallner, Vienna: Mandelbaum, 2015, 251 pp. (German)
- Komunizem po letu 1989. Razprave o razredni teoriji, realsocializmu in Vzhodni Evropi, intro. Sašo Furlan, trans. Sašo Furlan, Martin Hergouth, Jan Kostanjevec, and Jernej Pribošič, Ljubljana: Sophia, 2016, 312 pp. Publisher. (Slovenian)
- K filosofii socializmu, trans. Pavel Siostrzonek, intro. Joseph Grim Feinberg, Prague: Filosofia, 2016, 242 pp. Selected essays. TOC. Introduction. Publisher. Review: Stuchlík (Stud phil). (Czech)
- A New Fascism? (with Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, Chantal Mouffe, and Wilhelm Heitmeyer), ed. Susanne Pfeffer, London: Koenig Books, 2018, 53 pp.
- TGM70. Összegyűjtött írások Tamás Gáspár Miklós 70. születésnapjára, Mérce, 2018. Selected essays. (Hungarian)
- Antitézis. Válogatott tanulmányok, 2001–2020 [Antithesis], trans. & ed. Balázs Sipos, Budapest: Pesti Kalligram, 2021, 456 pp. Includes Hungarian translations of the author's English-language essays, along with two essays written in Hungarian. (Hungarian)
Essays, articles (selection)
- "Socialism, Capitalism, and Modernity", Journal of Democracy 3:3, Jul 1992, pp 60-74; repr. in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy Revisited, eds. Larry Diamon and Marc F. Plattner, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, pp 54-68. (English)
- "The Legacy of Dissent: Irony, Ambiguity, Duplicity", Times Literary Supplement, 14 May 1993; repr., Uncaptive Minds 7:2, Summer 1994, pp 19-34; repr. as "The Legacy of Dissent", in The Revolutions of 1989, ed. Vladimir Tismaneanu, London: Routledge, 1999, pp 177-192. (English)
- "Old Enemies and New: A Philosophic Postscript to Nationalism", Studies in East European Thought 46, 1994, pp 129-148. (English)
- "A Legacy of Empire", The Wilson Quarterly 18:1, Winter 1994, pp 77-81. (English)
- "On Memory and Horror. A Response to Tzvetan Todorov", Common Knowledge 5, 1996, 27-32. (English)
- "Ethnarchy and Ethno-Anarchism", Social Research 63:1, 1996, pp 147-190. (English)
- Eastern Europe a Decade Later: Victory Defeated", Journal of Democracy 10:1, Jan 1999, pp 63-68; repr. as "Victory Defeated", in Democracy After Communism, eds. Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner, John Hopkins University Press, 2002, pp 126-131. [2] (English)
- "Paradoxes of 1989", East European Politics and Societies 13:2, Spring 1999, pp 353-358. (English)
- "Democracy's Triumph, Philosophy's Peril", Journal of Democracy 11:1, Jan 2000. (English)
- "Being on the Left in Eastern Europe", Barcelona: CCCB, 2001. [3] (English)
- "Un capitalisme pur et simple", La Nouvelle Alternative 19:60-61, Mar-Jun 2004, pp 13-40. (French)
- "A Capitalism Pure and Simple", Grundrisse 22, Vienna, 2007; repr., Left Curve 32, Oakland, 2008, pp 66-75; repr. in Genealogies of Post-Communism, eds. Adrian T. Sîrbu and Alexandru Polgár, Cluj: Idea, 2009, pp 11-28. (English)
- "Ein ganz normaler Kapitalismus", trans. Gerold Wallner, Grundrisse 22, Vienna, Summer 2007, pp 9-23, PDF. (German)
- "Kapitalismus v čisté podobě", trans. Pavel Siostrzonek, in Tamás, K filosofii socializmu, Prague: Filosofia, 2016, pp 66-93. (Czech)
- "Telling the Truth About Class", Socialist Register 42, 2006, 228-268; repr., Grundrisse 22, Vienna, 2007. [4] (English)
- "Pravda a třída", trans. Pavel Siostrzonek, in Tamás, K filosofii socializmu, Prague: Filosofia, 2016, pp 94-152. (Czech)
- "Rudiments for a Political Philosophy of Socialism", Marx & Philosophy, 2007, DOC.
- "Základy politické filosofie socialismu", trans. Pavel Siostrzonek, in Tamás, K filosofii socializmu, Prague: Filosofia, 2016, pp 153-179. (Czech)
- "Counter-Revolution Against a Counter-Revolution: Eastern Europe Today", Socialist Register 44, 2008, pp 284-294; repr., Left Curve 33, Oakland, 2009, pp 61-67. [5] (English)
- "Counter-Revolution Against a Counter-Revolution: Eastern Europe Today", Maska 121-122, Ljubljana, Spring 2009, pp 16-31. (English)/(Slovenian)
- "Communism on the Ruins of Socialism", in Art Always Has Its Consequences, Zagreb: What, How & for Whom/WHW, 2010, pp 75-82; repr., Left Curve 36, Oakland, 2012, pp 98-105. (English)
- "Komunismus na troskách socialismu", trans. Pavel Siostrzonek, in Tamás, K filosofii socializmu, Prague: Filosofia, 2016, pp 180-201. (Czech)
- "On Post-Fascism", Boston Review, Summer 2000; repr. in Details, ed. What, How & for Whom/WHW, Bergen: Bergen Kunsthall, 2011, pp 43-56. (English)
- "A posztfasizmusról", Eszmélet 48, Winter 2000, pp 4-24. (Hungarian)
- "Marx on 1989", in First the Transition, Then the Crash: Eastern Europe in the 2000s, London: Pluto Press, 2011, pp 21-45. (English)
- "Marx o roku 1989", trans. Pavel Siostrzonek, in Tamás, K filosofii socializmu, Prague: Filosofia, 2016, pp 35-65. (Czech)
- "A Postscript to 'Post-Fascism'", in Details, ed. What, How & for Whom/WHW, Bergen: Bergen Kunsthall, 2011, pp 57-63. (English)
- "Une promesse de bonheur: Philosophy as the Antecedent of the Netherworld of Communism", in Really Useful Knowledge, ed. What, How and for Whom/WHW, Barcelona: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MACBA), 2014, pp 213-230. (English)
- "Une promesse de bonheur. Filosofie jako předchůdce podsvětí komunismu", trans. Pavel Siostrzonek, in Tamás, K filosofii socializmu, Prague: Filosofia, 2016, pp 202-217. (Czech)
- "Ethnicism after Nationalism: The Roots of the New European Right", Socialist Register 52, Sep 2015, pp 118-135. [6] (English)
- "Into the Dustbin of History", Salvage, May 2016. (English)
- "Fascism Without Fascism", in Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, et al., A New Fascism?, ed. Susanne Pfeffer, London: Koenig Books, 2018, pp 43-51. (English)
- "Zur Nationalität des Virus", Tagebuch, Apr 2020. [7] (German)
- "The Nationality of a Virus", Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien, Apr 2020. [8] (English)
Interviews, conversations
- "Hungary – “Where we went wrong”", International Socialism 2:123, Summer 2009. (English)
- "Words from Budapest", New Left Review 80, Mar-Apr 2013, pp 5-26. (English)
- Gábor Révai, Beszélgetések a baloldaliságról Heller Ágnessel és Tamás Gáspár Miklóssal, Budapest: Libri, 2019, 151 pp. (Hungarian)
- Pavlos Roufos, "All These Things Are Connected", Brooklyn Rail, Aug 2019. (English)
Literature
- Mircea Vasilescu, Adrian Cioroianu, Intelectualul român faţă cu inacţiunea: în jurul unei scrisori de G. M. Tamás, Bucharest: Curtea Veche, 2002, 154 pp. (Romanian)
- Péter György, Sándor Radnóti (eds.), A másként-gondolkodó: Tamás Gáspár Miklós 60, Budapest: Élet és Irodalom, 2008, 299 pp. (Hungarian)
- Anita Zsurzsán, "G. M. Tamás Wasn’t “Hungary’s Last Marxist”", Jacobin, Feb 2023. (English)