György Lukács
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György Lukács (13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic. He developed the theory of reification, and contributed to Marxist theory with developments of Karl Marx's theory of class consciousness.
As a literary critic Lukács was especially influential, because of his theoretical developments of realism and of the novel as a literary genre. In 1919, he was the Hungarian Minister of Culture of the government of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic (March–August 1919).
Contents
Works
(in German unless noted)
- Monographs and Collected works
- Die Seele und die Formen. Essays, Berlin: Egon Fleischel, 1911; Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2011.
- Soul and Form, Columbia University Press, 2010. (English)
- Die Theorie des Romans, Berlin: P. Cassirer, 1920; Hermann Luchterhand, 1968; Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2009, ARG.
- Geschichte und Klassenbewußtsein, 1923.
- History and Class Consciousness, London: Merlin, 1971; MIT Press, 1972, Log. (English)
- Lenin, Vienn: Verlag der Arbeiterbuchhandlung, 1924; Hermann Luchterhand Verlag GmbH, 1967.
- Lenin, trans. Nicholas Jacobs, London: New Left Books, 1970; 1971, ARG. (English)
- Der historische Roman, 1937; rev.ed., 1954.
- The Historical Novel, trans. Hannah and Stanley Mitchell, London: Merlin, 1962; Beacon Press 1963, ARG. (English)
- Goethe und seine Zeit, 1947.
- Goethe and His Age, London: Merlin, 1968. (English)
- Der junge Hegel. Über die Beziehungen von Dialektik und Ökonomie, 1948.
- The Young Hegel, London: Merlin, 1975. (English)
- Deutsche Literatur im Zeitalter des Imperialismus, 1945.
- Thomas Mann, 1949.
- Essays on Thomas Mann, London: Merlin, 1964. (English)
- Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels als Literaturhistoriker, 1947.
- Fortschritt und Reaktion in der deutschen Literatur, 1947.
- Studies in European Realism, London: Hillway, 1950. (English)
- Existentialismus oder Marxismus, 1951.
- Deutsche Realisten des 19. Jahrhunderts, 1951.
- Balzac und der französische Realismus (Literatur), 1952.
- Der russische Realismus in der Weltliteratur, 1953.
- Die Zerstörung der Vernunft, Berlin, 1954.
- The Destruction of Reason, London: Merlin, 1980. (English)
- Von Nietzsche zu Hitler oder der Irrationalismus und die deutsche Politik, Berlin-Spandau, 1962.
- The Meaning of Contemporary Realism, London: Merlin, 1963. (English)
- Der russische Realismus in der Weltliteratur, 1964.
- Solzhenitsyn, 1969.
- Solzhenitsyn, London: Merlin, 1970. (English)
- Writer and Critic, and Other Essays, ed. Arthur Kahn, London: Merlin, 1970. (English)
- Ontologie - Marx. Zur Ontologie des gesellschaftlichen Seins. Die Ontologischen Grundprinzipien bei Marx, 1972.
- Conversations with Lukács, ed. Theo Pinkus, London: Merlin, 1974. (English)
- Umění jako sebepoznání lidstva, ed. Petr Rákos, trans. Růžena Grebeníčková, Prague: Odeon, 1976. (Czech)
- with Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Bloch and Brecht, Aesthetics and Politics, 1977; London: Verso, 1980, 221 pp., Log, ARG. (English)
- The Ontology of Social Being, London: Merlin, 1978-80. (English)
- Vol. 1, Hegel's False and His Genuine Ontology, 1978.
- Vol. 2, Marx's Basic Ontological Premises, 1978.
- Vol. 3, Labour, 1980.
- Ontologia existenței sociale, Bucharest: Politică, 1975, PDF. (Romanian)
- Gelebtes Denken. Eine Autobiographie im Dialog, ed. István Eörsi, 1981.
- Record of a Life, ed. István Eörsi, London: Verso, 1983. (English)
- Zur Ontologie des gesellschaftlichen Seins, in Werke Bd. 14, 1984.
- The Culture of People's Democracy, ed. Tyrus Miller, Leiden: Brill, 2012. (English)
Literature
- Michael J. Thompson (ed.), Georg Lukács Reconsidered: Critical Essays in Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics, Continuum, 2011, 253 pp.