Georg Lukacs (1885-1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher
and literary critic. Most scholars consider him to be the founder
of the tradition of Western Marxism. He contributed the ideas of
reification and class consciousness to Marxist philosophy and
theory, and his literary criticism was influential in thinking
about realism and about the novel as a literary genre. He served
briefly as Hungary's Minister of Culture following the 1956
Hungarian Revolution.
Esther Leslie is a lecturer in English and Humanities at
Birkbeck College, London. She is the author of Walter Benjamin:
Overpowering Conformism and sits on the editorial boards of
Historical Materialism, Radical Philosophy and
Revolutionary History.
Slavoj i ek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic.
He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International
Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck
College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the
Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His
books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy,
Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes
of the Essential i ek, and many more.
John Rees is a writer, broadcaster and activist. His books
include The Algebra of Revolution and Imperialism and
Resistance. He is the writer and presenter of the Timeline TV
series, a member of the editorial board of the online magazine
Counterfire, and co-founder of the Stop the War Coalition.
"Lukacs's polemic tells of a dogmatic, corrupt, ultimately
murderous period in the transition from Stalinism ... it tells also
of the passion, so vividly Judaic and Central European, for the
life and clash of ideas."-George Steiner, Times Literary
Supplement
"We almost hear Lenin himself murmuring, it happens that for eighty
years no Marxist has ever properly understood History and Class
Consciousness! Splendidly translated here by Esther Leslie and
contextualized by an introduction by John Rees and a conclusion by
Slavoj i ek (both of them stimulating and suggestive)."-Fredric
Jameson, Radical Philosophy
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