Georg Lukacs : From Romanticism to Bolshevism by Michael. Löwy (2023, Trade Paperback)

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The famous works produced by Lukács during and after the Hungarian Commune—Tactics and Ethics, History and Class Consciousness and Lenin—were analysed and assessed. In this new edition, Löwy has added a substantial new introduction which reassess the nature of Lukacs's thought in the light of newly published texts and debates.

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PublisherVerso Books

ISBN-101804295493

ISBN-139781804295496

eBay Product ID (ePID)17061464476

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Book TitleGeorg Lukacs : from Romanticism to Bolshevism

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSocial, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Literary

Publication Year2023

GenrePhilosophy, Political Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorMichael. Löwy

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight7.4 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2023-036293

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal199.439

SynopsisOn the 100th anniversary of the publication of History and Class Consciousness , a new edition of this indispensable guide to Lukacs's thought and politics The philosophical and political development that converted Georg Lukács from a distinguished representative of Central European aesthetic vitalism into a major Marxist theorist and Communist militant has long remained an enigma. In this this now classic study, Michael Löwy for the first time traced and explained the extraordinary mutation that occurred in Lukács's thought between 1909 and 1929. Utilizing many as yet unpublished sources, Löwy meticulously reconstructed the complex itinerary of Lukács's thinking as he gradually moved towards his decisive encounter with Bolshevism. The religious convictions of the early Lukács, the peculiar spell exercised on him and on Max Weber by Dostoyevskyan images of pre-revolutionary Russia, the nature of his friendships with Ernst Bloch and Thomas Mann, were amongst the discoveries of the book. Then, in a fascinating case-study in the sociology of ideas, Löwy showed how the same philosophical problematic of Lebensphilosophie dominated the intelligentsias of both Germany and Hungary in the pre-war period, yet how the different configurations of social forces in each country bent its political destiny into opposite directions. The famous works produced by Lukács during and after the Hungarian Commune-- Tactics and Ethics, History and Class Consciousness and Lenin --were analysed and assessed. A concluding chapter discussed Lukács's eventual ambiguous settlement with Stalinism in the thirties, and its coda of renewed radicalism in the final years of his life. In this new edition, Löwy has added a substantial new introduction which reassess the nature of Lukacs's thought in the light of newly published texts and debates.

LC Classification NumberB4815.L84L6813 2023