History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (German: Geschichte und KlassenbewuÃtsein: Studien über marxistische Dialektik) is a 1923 book by the Hungarian philosopher György Lukács...
György Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of...
In the fall of 1960, during a three-month visit to Hungary, Arthur Kahn unsuccessfully asked his hosts to arrange a meeting with Gyorgy Lukacs, a persona non grata to the Communist regime. Kahn arranged to meet Lukacs on his own and proposed translating...
In the mid 1920s Lukács wrote a sustained and passionate response to Stalinâs onslaught on his earlier seminal work History and Class Consciousness . Unpublished at the time, Lukács himself thought that the...
These essays, written over a number of decades, are intended to throw light on the central problems of the work of Thomas Mann whom Lukács describes as the last great bourgeois writer. Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician...
This revealing autobiography of the Hungarian Marxist philosopher Georg Lukács is centered on a series of interviews that he gave in 1969 and 1971, shortly before his death on 4 June 1971.
With a new introduction by Dr Gary Day, De Montfort University, Leicester, UKAn argument for literary realism as opposed to modernism, contrasting Mann and Kafka. The book also argues for socialist as opposed to critical realism in literature.
Lukacs explores problems of consciousness and organization, drawing on Luxemburg and Lenin. When the proletariat proclaims the dissolution of the existing social order, Marx declares, it does no more than disclose the secret of its own existence, for it...
In an essay of prophetic vision, Lukacs defines a critical realism:âanyone who wants to become more intimately acquainted with the prehistory of the important ideologies of the [nineteen-] twenties and thirties .. will be helped by a...