History and Class Consciousness
Studies in Marxist Dialectics
$138.52
- Paperback
408 pages
- Release Date
15 November 1972
Summary
This is the first time one of the most important of Lukacs’ early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923, has been made available in English. The book consists of a series of essays treating, among other topics, the definition of orthodox Marxism, the question of legality and illegality, Rosa Luxemburg as a Marxist, the changing function of Historic Marxism, class consciousness, and the substantiation and consciousness of the Proletariat.
Writing in 1968, on the occasion o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262620208 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262620200 |
| Author: | Georg Lukács, Rodney Livingstone |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 408 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 1972 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 133mm x 17mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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George Lukacs’s History and Class Consciousness is a truly extraordinary work, and its English translation, after almost fifty years of neglect by English and American publishers, is a major event…The full quality of Lukacs’s brilliance is most powerfully manifested in this ‘youthful’ work (done when merely 38!), where he reveals himself as by far and away the most talented philosopher among 20th-century Marxists, and as their most penetrating critic of contemporary culture…he is a major stimulus in the development of what is certainly the most creative school of social theorists in the 20th century, and of whom Herbert Marcuse is only the best-known member. For all this, then, we owe homage to Georg Lukacs.
—Alvin W. Gouldner , New York Times Book ReviewAbout The Author
Georg Lukács
Georg Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic.
Rodney Livingstone is Reader in German at the University of Southampton. He has edited and translated numerous works by Lukacs, Theodor Adorno, and others.
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