Gáspár Miklós Tamás

Gáspár Miklós Tamás studied at Babeș-Bolyai University. Training under György Bretter is recorded. The recorded working language is Hungarian, English and French. The field of work recorded is philosophy and political science. Places of work recorded in the authority are Budapest. Employment is recorded with Central European University. Positions recorded include member of the National Assembly of Hungary. Distinctions recorded are Roma Civil Rights Award, Lifetime Achievement Award of the Soros Foundation Hungary, Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic and Press Freedom Award.

• Region — Western philosophy • Era — 21st-century philosophy • Name — Gáspár Miklós Tamás • Born — 28 November 1948 • Birthplace — Cluj, Romania • Education — Babeș-Bolyai University • Died — 15 January 2023 • Place of death — Budapest, Hungary • School Tradition — Continental philosophy Libertarian socialism • Main Interests — Political theory • Notable Ideas — Post-fascism, ethnicism

Gáspár Miklós Tamás was born in today's Cluj, Romania. He emigrated to Budapest, Hungary, in 1978, after being harassed by the Securitate. His mother was Jewish and escaped being deported to Auschwitz because she was imprisoned for being a communist. As a dissident at the end of the state socialist period, he was initially a libertarian socialist. While in contact with libertarian authors, his perspective was distinct from the Budapest School, a major school of thought in Hungarian Neo-Marxism. He was also a member of the informal group called the "democratic opposition". From 1986 to 1988, he taught in the U.S., Britain, and France, and also continued his studies at Oxford University. At the beginning of the post-socialist era in 1989, he became committed to a liberal program, and was a leader of the Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ). As a representative of the party, he was a member of the Hungarian Parliament from 1989 to 1994, and served the party's president through 1994, departing the party in 2000. He was a prominent democratic opponent of the Hungarian government under János Kádár and Viktor Orbán. He became the Green Left's president in 2010. Tamás was known for developing the concept of post-fascism and the term ethnicism. In his words, Tamás died on 15 January 2023, at the age of 74.

He described himself as a "conservative anarchist" and a Marxist.

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* * * • Tamás, Gáspár Miklós (2021) Antitézis [Antithesis] (in Hungarian). Budapest, Hungary: Pesti Kalligram. ISBN 9789634682035