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György Lukács

Born

in Budapest, Hungary

April 13, 1885

Died

June 04, 1971

Genre

Philosophy, Politics, Literature

Influences

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Max Weber, Georges Sorel, Vladimir Ilyich ...more

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György Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian and critic. He is a founder of the tradition of Western Marxism, an interpretive tradition that departed from the Marxist ideological orthodoxy of the Soviet Union. He developed the theory of reification, and contributed to Marxist theory with developments of Karl Marx's theory of class consciousness. He was also a philosopher of Leninism. He ideologically developed and organised Lenin's pragmatic revolutionary practices into the formal philosophy of vanguard-party revolution.

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 as part of the government o ...more

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	History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics by György Lukács, Rodney Livingstone (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 3,641 ratings — published 1923 — 81 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Theory of the Novel by György Lukács, Anna Bostock (Translator) 3.84 avg rating — 1,446 ratings — published 1916 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lenin: A Study in the Unity of His Thought (The Verso Classics Series) 3.94 avg rating — 419 ratings — published 1970 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Historical Novel 3.92 avg rating — 226 ratings — published 1937 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soul and Form 3.96 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 1910 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Destruction of Reason 3.86 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 1952 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Meaning of Contemporary Realism 3.42 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1967 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Defence of History and Class Consciousness: Tailism and the Dialectic by György Lukács, Esther Leslie (Translator), John Rees (Contributor) 3.83 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1996 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Young Hegel: Studies in the Relations between Dialectics and Economics 4.03 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1948 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tactics and Ethics: Political Writings 1919-1929 3.83 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1972 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Philosophy is transcendental homelessness; it is the urge to be at home everywhere”
― György Lukács

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“From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of the world does not depend. Not only can this not be known objectively for certain, because it is always possible that it will depend precisely on the individual, but this kind of thinking is also made impossible by the very essence of ethics, by conscience and the sense of responsibility.”
― Georg Lukacs

tags: ethics, history, politics, responsibility

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“Kafka was a realist”
― Georg Lukacs

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