"In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are assembled in a single volume."
"Georg Lukacs (1885-1971) is now recognized as one of the most innovative and best-informed literary critics of the twentieth century. Trained in the German philosophic tradition of Kant, Hegel, and Marx, he escaped Nazi persecution by fleeing to the Soviet Union in 1933. There he faced a new set of problems: Stalinist dogmatism about literature and literary criticism. Maneuvering between the obstacles of censorship, he wrote and publish ..."
"This is the first time one of the most important of Lukács' early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923, has been made available in English. The book consists of a series of essays treating, among other topics, the definition of orthodox Marxism, the question of legality and illegality, Rosa Luxemburg as a Marxist, the changing function of Historic Marxism, class consciousness, and the substantiation and consciousness of th ..."
"In an essay of prophetic vision, Lukacs defines a critical realism: 'anyone who wants to become more intimately acquainted with the prehistory of the important ideologies of the [nineteen-] twenties and thirties ...will be helped by a critical reading of this book.'"
Tactics and Ethics 1919-1929 (Radical Thinkers) by GeorgLukacs Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 2014 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-149-7, ISBN: 1-78168-149-X
"Tactics and Ethics collects Georg Lukács’s articles from the most politically active time of his life, a period encompassing his stint as deputy commissar of education in the Hungarian Soviet Republic. Including his famed essay on parliamentarianism—which earned Lukács the respectful yet severe criticism of Lenin—this book is a treasure chest of valuable insights from one of history’s great political philosophers."
"Georg Lukacs's The Process of Democratization provides indispensable reading for an understanding of the revolution that swept Russia and Eastern Europe during 1989-1990. Lukacs, a spokesman for anti-Bolshevik communism, was the advance guard of anti-Stalinist reform. Written in the aftermath of the Prague Spring, his book was a precursor to many of the Gorbachev reforms. Lukacs was the leading communist intellectual in the world until ..."
"This revealing autobiography of the Hungarian Marxist philosopher Georg Lukács is centered on a series of interviews that he gave in 1969 and 1971, shortly before his death on 4 June 1971.Stimulated by the sympathetic yet incisive questioning of the interviewer, the Hungarian essayist István Eörsi, Lukács discusses at length the course of his life, his years of political struggle, and his formation and role as a Marxist intellectual. Fr ..."
"In the fall of 1960, during a three-month visit to Hungary, Arthur Kahn unsuccessfully asked his hosts to arrange a meeting with Gyorgy Lukacs, a persona non grata to the Communist regime. Kahn arranged to meet Lukacs on his own and proposed translating some Lukacs essays never before appearing in English. During the three years Kahn worked on the translations, he and Lukacs engaged in a voluminous correspondence, investigating Marxism ..."
"secondhand copy, with some water stains on back cover and through last three pages, otherwise clean and tight copy."
Studies in European Realism(Updated) A Sociological Survey of the writings of Balzac, Stendhal, Zola, Tolstoy, Gorki and Others. by GeorgLukacs, Esther Leslie, E. Bone Paperback, 277 Pages, Published 1975 by The Merlin Press Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-85036-211-4, ISBN: 0-85036-211-3
"One of the greatest Marxist theorists of his generation, author of among other classics History of the Development of Modern Drama (1911), History and Class Consciousness (1923) and The Historical Novel (1937), Georg Lukacs was a prolific writer of remarkably catholic, if moralistic, tastes. In the The Lukacs Reader, his biographer Arpad Kadarkay represents the great range and variety of Lukacs's output, collecting work from four fields ..."
Lenin(Updated) A Study in the Unity of his Thought by GeorgLukacs, N. Jacobs, György Lukács Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 1972 by Verso Books ISBN-13: 978-0-902308-63-3, ISBN: 0-902308-63-7
"Georg Lukács wrote The Theory of the Novel in 1914-1915, a period that also saw the conception of Rosa Luxemburg's Spartacus Letters, Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Spengler's Decline of the West, and Ernst Bloch's Spirit of Utopia. Like many of Lukács's early essays, it is a radical critique of bourgeois culture and stems from a speci ..."
"Thought to have been destroyed until recently discovered in Moscow's CPSU archives, this polemic by the 'philosopher of the October Revolution' was written in 1923 in response to Stalin's onslaught on his earlier History and Class Consciousness.Georg Lukács was dubbed 'the philosopher of the October Revolution' and his masterpiece History and Class Consciousness (1923) is commonly held to be the foundational text for the tradition known ..."
Soul and Form(Updated) by GeorgLukacs, Gyorgy Lukacs Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 1991 by Merlin Press ISBN-13: 978-0-85036-251-0, ISBN: 0-85036-251-2
"This collection of literary essays, which first appeared in Hungarian in 1910 when the author was only twenty-five, and in German the following year, was Georg Lukács' first published book. Many of the themes that dominate his later work are already to be found in these youthful writings—the idea of totality, the nature of form, the role of essayist and critic, the significance of gesture."
"Marked, worn and torn dust jacket is in a protective sleeve, page edges tanned, bookseller's marks. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday."
"... Heidegger and Schmitt to National Socialism , considering him as the uncomfortable and embarrassing father of so many ... Faye , Domenico Losurdo and Yves - Charles Zarka.7 ° Nietzsche's appropriation by Nazi ideology or Heidegger's ..."