Lukacs biography

Georg Lukács: An Intellectual Biography

Lecture

10 Dec · am

Patrick Eiden-Offe: Lukács and the role and function of the proletariat (and the adequate understanding of this term) in the emergence of degrowth communism

Erich Auerbach Institute for Advances Studies, library, Weyertal 59 (back building), Cologne

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Lecture

08 Nov · am

Patrick Eiden-Offe: Fascism as the destruction of reason: Georg Lukács and the bourgeois heritage

SOAS, Russell Square, Central London

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Lecture

13 Jun · pm

Patrick Eiden-Offe: Inmitten der Weltkrise die Klasse gewechselt: Klassenbewusstsein, Klassenstolz und Klassenscham. Georg Lukács als ‘transfuge’

Aquarium im Südblock, Kottbusser Tor

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Lectures & talk

23 May · pm

Jahre Lenin: Lenin bei Lukács und bei Bogdanov

Helle Panke e.V. – Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Berlin, Kopenhagener Str. 9, Berlin

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Panel discussion

19 Oct · pm

Geschlecht und Revolution

Münzenbergsaal im FMP1, Franz-Mehring-Platz 1, Berlin

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Conference

18 Oct – 20 Oct

– Sattelzeit der Revolution. Umbrüche in Polit

György Lukács


Born

in Budapest, Hungary

April 13,


Died

June 04,


Genre

Philosophy, Politics, Literature


Influences

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Max Weber, Georges Sorel, Vladimir IlyichKarl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Max Weber, Georges Sorel, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Georg Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Wilhem Dilthey, Emil Lask, Georg Simmel, Rosa Luxemburg, Søren Kierkegaardmore


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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 oGyörgy Lukács was a Hungarian

Georg [György] Lukács

1. Life and Career

Lukács was born Bernát György Löwinger on April 13, , in Budapest. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Kolozsvár in and a doctorate from the University of Budapest in In the following years, Lukács made a name for himself as a literary and aesthetic theorist, working in Budapest, Berlin (where he was influenced by Georg Simmel), Florence, and Heidelberg. In and , Lukács published his essay collection Soul and Form and, together with Lajos Fülep, founded the short-lived avant-garde journal A Szellem (The Spirit). Lukács’s world was sent into turmoil at that time by the death of his close friend Leo Popper and by the suicide of Irma Seidler, who had been his lover. He felt responsible for Seidler’s death, and it proved to have an enormous impact on him, as reflected in his essay “On Poverty of Spirit.”

During the same period, Lukács developed a close connection with Max and Marianne Weber in Heidelberg, with Ernst Bloch, and with the Neo-Kantian philosophers Heinrich Rickert and Emil Lask. Between and he

Georg Lukács Archive

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Biography

eBooks for Lukacs

Early Works

The Theory of the Novel ()
Tactics and Ethics ()
The Role of Morality in Communist Production ()
The Moral Mission of the Communist Party ()
The Problem of Communist Organisation ()
Tagore&#;s Gandhi Novel ()

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from History & Class Consciousness

Preface (December )
What is Orthodox Marxism? (March )
The Marxism of Rosa Luxemburg (Jan )
Class Consciousness (March )
Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat ()
     I:   The Phenomenon of Reification
     II:  Antinomies of Bourgeois Thought
          Subject & Object In Hegel
     III: The Standpo


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