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György Lukács

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born

April 13, 1885 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, Hungary

died

June 04, 1971

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male

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Philosophy, Politics, Literature & Fiction

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György Lukács (Hungarian pronunciation: [ɟørɟ lukɑːtʃ]; 13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic. He is a 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 as part of the government of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic

Political philosophy, Social Theory, Politics, Literary theory,

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Average rating: 3.89 · 799 ratings · 47 reviews · 47 distinct works

	History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics by Georg Lukaes, Rodney Livingstone (Translator), Georg Lukaes 4.01 avg rating — 415 ratings — published 1923 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Historical Novel 3.90 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1962 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Soul and Form 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1974 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Destruction of Reason 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1980 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Meaning of Contemporary Realism 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1969 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Young Hegel: Studies in the Relations Between Dialectics and Economics 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1970 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Solzhenitsyn by György Lukács, William David Graf (Translator) 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1970 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Studies In European Realism 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Essays on Thomas Mann by György Lukács, Stanley Mitchell (Translator) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	My rating:
	Essays on Realism by György Lukács, Rodney Livingstone (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:

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“Kafka was a realist”
― György Lukács

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“Well I know Gyuri [the familiar diminutive of Georg or György], that human beings are unapproachable, that their souls are as far from each other as stars; only the remote radiance reaches to the other. I know that human beings are surrounded by dark, great seas, and thus they look across to one another, yearning but never reaching one another”
― György Lukács, Record of a Life: An Autobiographical Sketch

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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.”
― György Lukács

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