- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Verso Press USA; New edition edition (Aug 27 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1859843700
- ISBN-13: 978-1859843703
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 13.9 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 272 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,166,238 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Georg Lukÿcs was dubbed "the philosopher of the October Revolution" and his masterpiece History and Class Consciousness (1923) is commonly held to be the foundational text for the tradition known as "Western Marxism" which includes the work of Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse. However, as the liberating energies of the Russian Revolution were sapped by Stalinism, Lukÿcs was subjected to ferocious attack for "deviations" from the "party line". In the mid-1920s, Lukÿcs wrote a sustained and passionate response to this onslaught. Unpublished at the time, Lukÿcs himself thought the text had been destroyed. However, a group of researchers recently found the manuscript gathering dust in the newly opened archives of the CPSU in Moscow. Now, for the first time, this fascinating, polemical and intense text is available in English. It is a crucial part of a hidden intellectual history and will transform interpretations of Lukÿcs's oeuvre.
About the Author
Georg Lukács was born in Hungary in 1885 and died there in 1971. A leading communist militant and a foremost Marxist philosopher, he was also, in 1919 and 1956, a government minister. His other books include History and Class Consciousness, The Historical Novel, Political Writings, Record of A Life, and Lenin.
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Vital missing link in intellectual history
Nov 26 2005
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Lukacs' text is comprised of two parts: I. Problems of Class Consciousness, II. Dialectic of Nature. Lukacs defends his seminal work History and Class Consciousness (1923) against his principal intellectual attackers in the Comintern, Abram Deborin and Laszlo Rudas. Lukacs argues that his book is a philosophical expression of Bolshevism and characterizes Deborin as a Menshevik and Rudas as a tailist. Lukacs convincingly argues that these two, operating with an implicit Kantianism and uncritically importing a limited natural-scientific perspective into Marxist theory, are trapped in a subject-object dualism they cannot overcome and have missed the boat on the nature of dialectical consciousness and revolutionary praxis. Part II is of especial importance. Lukacs' criticisms of Engels' dialectics of nature and his remarks about the `contemplative' nature of scientific experiment have always been controversial, but here we see that the real issue for Lukacs is the misbegotten transposition of a dialectic of nature to social theory (on the part of Rudas and Deborin), effecting a fundamental distortion of Marxism. Lukacs harbors no animus against the notion of a dialectic of nature per se, but he offers an interesting if obscure argument that such a bare bones dialectic cannot even do justice to the dialectics of scientific practice, let alone account for the social determination of scientific practice.
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