Lukacs After Communism

Author : Eva L. Corredor
Publisher : Post-Contemporary Intervention
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lukács After Communism written by Eva L. Corredor and published by Post-Contemporary Intervention. This book was released on 1997 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the validity of Marxism and Marxist theory has undergone intense scrutiny both within and outside the academy. In Lukács After Communism, Eva L. Corredor conducts ten lively and engaging interviews with a diverse group of international scholars to address the continued relevance of György Lukács's theories to the post-communist era. Corredor challenges these theoreticians, who each have been influenced by the man once considered the foremost theoretician of Marxist aesthetics, to reconsider the Lukácsean legacy and to speculate on Marxist theory's prospects in the coming decades. The scholars featured in this collection--Etienne Balibar, Peter Bürger, Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson, Jacques Leenhardt, Michael Löwy, Roberto Schwarz, George Steiner, Susan Suleiman, and Cornel West--discuss a broad array of literary and political topics and present provocative views on gender, race, and economic relations. Corredor's introduction provides a biographical synopsis of Lukács and discusses a number of his most important theoretical concepts. Maintaining the ongoing vitality of Lukács's work, these interviews yield insights into Lukács as a philosopher and theorist, while offering anecdotes that capture him in his role as a teacher-mentor.

Author : László Sziklai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Proletarian Revolution written by László Sziklai and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Georg Lukacs
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1844673529
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lenin written by Georg Lukacs and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of the chaos following Lenin’s death and the mounting fury against Lukács and his freshly penned History and Class Consciousness (1923), this book bears an assessment of Lenin as “the only theoretical equal to Marx.” Lukács shows, with unprecedented clarity, how Lenin’s historical interventions—from his vanguard politics and repurposing of the state to his detection of a new, imperialist stage of capitalism—advanced the conjunction of theory and practice, class consciousness and class struggle. A postscript from 1967 reflects on how this picture of Lenin, which both shattered failed Marxism and preserved certain prejudices of its day, became even more inspirational after the oppressions of Stalin. Lukács’s study remains indispensable to an understanding of the contemporary significance of Lenin’s life and work.

Author : John Baldacchino
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429895720
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-Marxist Marxism written by John Baldacchino and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1996, Post-Marxist Marxism is a discussion of realism in a Post-Marxist context. The book argues that this discussion must take two simultaneous routes: recognizing deconstruction as the tool of enquiry to disentangle the insufficiency of contemporary answers in political philosophy and aesthetics, and reclaiming realism to move beyond the Post-Modernist tradition. To answer the issues of realism, the book revisits Lucacs' and Adorno's aesthetic questions, which in their different approaches prefigured the questions of the present. Central issues include totality; method; identarian and non-identarian dialects; the Enlightenment; and the end of Modernity.

Author : Andrew Arato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Young Lukács and the Origins of Western Marxism written by Andrew Arato and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Andrés López
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004417680
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lukács: Praxis and the Absolute written by Daniel Andrés López and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georg Lukács’s philosophy of praxis, penned between 1918 and 1928, remains a revolutionary and apocryphal presence within Marxism. His History and Class Consciousness has inspired a century of rapture and reprobation, perhaps, as Gillian Rose suggested, because of its ‘invitation to hermeneutic anarchy’. In Lukács: Praxis and the Absolute, Daniel Andrés López radicalises Lukács’s famous return to Hegel by reassembling his 1920s philosophy as a conceptual-historical totality. This speculative reading defends Lukács while proposing an unprecedented, immanent critique. While Lukács’s concept of praxis approaches the shape of Hegel’s Absolute, it tragically fails to bear its weight. However, as López argues, Lukács’s failure was productive: it raises crucial political, methodological and philosophical questions for Marxism, offering to redeem a lost century.

Author : G.H.R. Parkinson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100087334X
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Georg Lukács written by G.H.R. Parkinson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-24 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1977, Georg Lukács gives an outline of Lukács’ views and explains how they are related to the relevant cultural traditions of his epoch. The author covers the whole range of Lukács’ thought, from his earliest literary criticism to the posthumous Ontology of Social Existence. Lukács’ early writings in particular are frequently obscure in style and impregnated with the language and thought of Hegel. Professor Parkinson has elucidated Lukács’ principal writings in systematic fashion, and the book includes a detailed exposition of Lukács’ influential but difficult book History and Class Consciousness. This should be an indispensable book for all those who seek a clear, comprehensible introduction to the writings of one of the most influential Marxist thinkers of our time.

Author : Georg Lukacs
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859843703
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Defence of History and Class Consciousness written by Georg Lukacs and published by Verso. This book was released on 2002-08-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is commonly held to be the foundational text for Western Marxism. As Stalinism took over in Russia, Lukacs was subjected to attacks for deviation. In the 1920s he wrote this response.

Author : Michael Burawoy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226080420
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Radiant Past written by Michael Burawoy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communism, once heralded as the "radiant future" of all humanity, has now become part of Eastern Europe's past. What does the record say about the legacy of communism as an organizational system? Michael Burawoy and Janos Lukacs consider this question from the standpoint of the Hungarian working class. Between 1983 and 1990 the authors carried out intensive studies in two core Hungarian industries, machine building and steel production, to produce the first extended participant-observation study of work and politics in state socialism. "A fascinating and engagingly written eyewitness report on proletarian life in the waning years of goulash communism. . . . A richly rewarding book, one that should interest political scientists in a variety of subfields, from area specialists and comparativists to political economists, as well as those interested in Marxist and post-Marxist theory."—Elizabeth Kiss, American Political Science Review "A very rich book. . . . It does not merely offer another theory of transition, but also presents a clear interpretive scheme, combined with sociological theory and vivid ethnographic description."—Ireneusz Bialecki, Contemporary Sociology "Its informed skepticism of post-Communist liberal euphoria, its concern for workers, and its fine ethnographic details make this work valuable."—"àkos Róna-Tas, American Journal of Sociology

Author : György Lukács
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780850361735
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Lukács written by György Lukács and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: