A crucial, fascinating and intense lost text
Georg Lukács (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.
Lukács'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.
*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 Zizek (both of them stimulating and suggestive).
*Radical Philosophy*
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