György Lukács

György Lukács
György Lukács (1885 - 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, critic, and aesthetician of Jewish heritage. He was one of the founders 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.

As a literary critic Lukács was especially influential due to his theoretical developments of realism and of the novel as a literary genre. In 1919, he was appointed the Hungarian Minister of Culture of the government of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic (March - August 1919).

Lukács has been described as the preeminent Marxist intellectual of the Stalinist era, though assessing his legacy can be …more

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Fools, Frauds and Firebrand...

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Marxism and Literary Criticism

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Record of a Life: An Autobi...

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Cencrastus No. 5: Summer 1981

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