Das Konzept der Ideologie

by George Lichtheim, Friedrich Griese (Translator)

143 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1967

About the author

George Lichtheim (1912-1973) was a German-born intellectual whose works focused on the history and theory of socialism and Marxism. He defined himself as a socialist and stated in a 1964 letter to the New York Review of Books that "I am not a liberal and never have been. I find liberalism almost as boring as communism and have no wish to be drawn into an argument over which of these two antiquated creeds is less likely to advance us any further."
His work appeared in the Palestine Post, Commentary, Partisan Review, Dissent, the New Leader, Encounter, the Times Literary Supplement and the New York Review of Books. Additionally, he translated Gershom Scholem's Main Currents in Jewish Mysticism. His death was by suicide.

Reviews

[Peter Munsterman · Rating 5 out of 5]

There was not a more provocative writer about historical and contemporary socialism than George Lichtheim. This collection of essays is typically incisive in thought and graceful in style. It's a terrible shame that such a writer could languish in obscurity, especially when the same subjects he grappled with still haunt us today.