History and Class Consciousness
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History and Class Consciousness
The centenary edition of a classic in Marxist philosophy
The centenary edition of a classic in Marxist philosophy
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History and Class Consciousness was the most important of Georg Lukács's early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923. The subject of high praise and passionate criticism, it had a major impact on all the Marxist debates that followed, introducing key new concepts such as 'totality', 'reification' and 'imputed class consciousness'.
This centenary edition, with a new preface by Michael Löwy, comprises a series of essays exploring, 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, and the substantiation and consciousness of the proletariat.
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 contemporary thought.
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ISBN: 9781804295694
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 November 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Contributors:
- Translated by Rodney Livingstone
- Preface by Michael Löwy
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 374g
Pages: 416
About the Author
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.
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