This work is commonly held to be the foundational text for Western Marxism. As Stalinism took over in Russia, Lukacs was subjected to attacks for deviation. In the 1920s he wrote this response.
This is the first time one of the most important of Lukács' early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923, has been made available in English.
Georg Lukács and Organizing Class Consciousness
... science-conscience duality loses its radical nature in that the study of the object is at the same time a transforming selfknowledge of the subject; this is, incidentally, the basic meaning of the title History ... consciousness and action,
This classic book has influenced many key philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Adorno, Debord, Heidegger, Lefebvre, Merleau-Ponty and Zizek, and it can lay claim to being one of the cornerstones of ...
History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
In the appreciative words of the English Althusserian Paul Hirst , Durkheim's position is a sociological anti - humanism ; it insists that the human subject is neither the author of society nor a purely social being .
This book offers a new reconstruction of Lukács' early Marxist work, capable of restoring its dialectical complexity by highlighting its roots in his neo-Kantian, 'pre-Marxist' period.
This reinterpretation of the philosophy of praxis shows its continuing relevance to contemporary discussions in Marxist political theory, continental philosophy and science and technology studies.
This speculative reading defends Lukács while proposing an unprecedented, immanent critique. While Lukács 's concept of praxis approaches the shape of Hegel 's Absolute, it tragically fails to bear its weight.
Having staked out his owns claims about the postwar origins of human rights discourse in his acclaimed Last Utopia, Moyn, in this volume, takes issue with rival conceptions—including, especially, those that underlie justifications of ...