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'''György Lukács''' (13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic. He was one of the founders of Western Marxism, an interpretive tradition that departed from the Marxist ideological orthodoxy of the USSR. He developed the theory of reification, and contributed to Marxist theory with developments of Karl Marx's theory of class consciousness.
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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).
 
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).
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==Works==
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(in German unless noted otherwise)
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; Monographs and Collected works
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* ''Die Seele und die Formen. Essays'', Berlin: Egon Fleischel, 1911; Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2011.
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** ''Soul and Form'', Columbia University Press, 2010. {{en}}
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* ''Die Theorie des Romans'',  Berlin: P. Cassirer, 1920; Hermann Luchterhand, 1968; Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2009, [http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/7c2f3acdc74a76d5ab6f2994241fa1fe ARG].
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** ''The Theory of the Novel. A historico-philosophical essay on the forms of great epic literature'', trans. Anna Bostock, London: Merlin, 1962; MIT Press, 1971, [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/51c5856f6c3a0e090cb10400 ARG], 1974, [http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=4C64F4C263DEAD7710C224430C099CBE PDF]. {{en}}
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* ''Geschichte und Klassenbewußtsein'', 1923.
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** ''History and Class Consciousness'', London: Merlin, 1971; MIT Press, 1972, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=535 Log]. {{en}}
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* ''Lenin'', Vienn: Verlag der Arbeiterbuchhandlung, 1924; Hermann Luchterhand Verlag GmbH, 1967.
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** ''Lenin'', trans. Nicholas Jacobs, London: New Left Books, 1970; 1971, [http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/7c15edc8808bcf42070040b039082221 ARG]. {{en}}
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* ''Der historische Roman'', 1937; rev.ed., 1954.
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** ''The Historical Novel'', trans. Hannah and Stanley Mitchell, London: Merlin, 1962; Beacon Press 1963, [http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/5b4421a043a640f69bd7c615b74473bc ARG]. {{en}}
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* ''Goethe und seine Zeit'', 1947.
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** ''Goethe and His Age'', London: Merlin, 1968. {{en}}
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* ''Der junge Hegel. Über die Beziehungen von Dialektik und Ökonomie'', 1948.
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** ''The Young Hegel. Studies in the Relations between Dialectics and Economics'', trans. Rodney Livingstone, London: Merlin, 1975, [http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=CDAE5E07F4B9507AB40A20E1F03AD4C6 PDF], [https://archive.org/details/georg-lukacs-the-young-hegel IA], [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5966fd729ff37c0dbe001c53 ARG]. {{en}}
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* ''Deutsche Literatur im Zeitalter des Imperialismus'', 1945.
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* ''Thomas Mann'', 1949.
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** ''Essays on Thomas Mann'', London: Merlin, 1964. {{en}}
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* ''Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels als Literaturhistoriker'', 1947.
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* ''Fortschritt und Reaktion in der deutschen Literatur'', 1947.
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* ''Studies in European Realism'', London: Hillway, 1950. {{en}}
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* ''Existentialismus oder Marxismus'', 1951.
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* ''Deutsche Realisten des 19. Jahrhunderts'', 1951.
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* ''Balzac und der französische Realismus (Literatur)'', 1952.
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* ''Der russische Realismus in der Weltliteratur'', 1953.
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* ''Die Zerstörung der Vernunft'', Berlin, 1954.
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** ''The Destruction of Reason'', London: Merlin, 1980. {{en}}
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* ''Von Nietzsche zu Hitler oder der Irrationalismus und die deutsche Politik'', Berlin-Spandau, 1962.
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* ''The Meaning of Contemporary Realism'', London: Merlin, 1963. {{en}}
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* ''Der russische Realismus in der Weltliteratur'', 1964.
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* ''Solzhenitsyn'', 1969.
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** ''Solzhenitsyn'', London: Merlin, 1970. {{en}}
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* ''Writer and Critic, and Other Essays'', ed. Arthur Kahn, London: Merlin, 1970. {{en}}
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* ''Ontologie - Marx. Zur Ontologie des gesellschaftlichen Seins. Die Ontologischen Grundprinzipien bei Marx'', Luchterhand, 1972.
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* ''Ästhetik'', 4 vols., 1972-76.
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** ''Estetica'', Ediciones Grijalbo, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=2bc04f6440340f1393548ad1bb5d66a8 vol. 1], [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=32af05a4e30343e8ee01b6d28593a66b vol. 2], [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=867f043d226a140a9df12d2ee0b23112 vol. 3], [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=5d85ce976341eabd34f06d5f459a6802 vol. 4]. {{es}}
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* ''Conversations with Lukács'', ed. Theo Pinkus, London: Merlin, 1974. {{en}}
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* ''Umění jako sebepoznání lidstva'', ed. Petr Rákos, trans. Růžena Grebeníčková, Prague: Odeon, 1976. {{cz}}
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* with Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Bloch and Brecht, ''Aesthetics and Politics'', 1977; London: Verso, 1980, 221 pp., [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2091 Log], [http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/3444a924cfb4f004883ec9fa03e13cb5 ARG]. {{en}}
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* ''Zur Ontologie des gesellschaftlichen Seins. Hegels falsche und echte Ontologie'', Neuwied und Berlin/Darmstadt: Luchterhand, 1971, 1973.
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** ''The Ontology of Social Being'', London: Merlin, 1978-80. {{en}}
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*** Vol. 1, ''Hegel's False and His Genuine Ontology'', 1978.
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*** Vol. 2, ''Marx's Basic Ontological Premises'', 1978.
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*** Vol. 3, ''Labour'', 1980.
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**** ''Ontologia existenței sociale'', trans. Radu Stoichiță and Vasile Zamfirescu, intro N. Tertulian, Bucharest: Politică, 1975, [[Media:Lukacs_Gyorgy_Ontologia_existenței_sociale_1975.pdf|PDF]], [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=adb6947e28b481582d107c33983c3a3c PDF], [https://archive.org/details/GyorgyLukacsOntologiaExistenteiSocialeEdituraPolitica1975 IA], [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/596341b19ff37c0dbe00199b ARG]. {{ro}}
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* ''Gelebtes Denken. Eine Autobiographie im Dialog'', ed. István Eörsi, 1981.
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* ''Record of a Life'', ed. István Eörsi, London: Verso, 1983. {{en}}
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* ''Zur Ontologie des gesellschaftlichen Seins'', in ''Werke Bd. 14'', 1984.
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* ''The Culture of People's Democracy'', ed. Tyrus Miller, Leiden: Brill, 2012. {{en}}
  
 
==Literature==
 
==Literature==
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* ''Studies in European Realism'', London: Hillway, 1950.
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* George Lichtheim, ''Lukacs'', London: Fontana Collins, 1970. {{en}}
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* ''The Historical Novel'', London: Merlin, 1947, 1962.
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* ''The Meaning of Contemporary Realism'', London: Merlin, 1955, 1963
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* Michael J. Thompson (ed.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2767 Georg Lukács Reconsidered: Critical Essays in Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics]'', Continuum, 2011, 253 pp. {{en}}
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* ''Essays on Thomas Mann'', London: Merlin, 1947, 1964.
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* '' Goethe and His Age'', London: Merlin, 1947, 1968.
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==Bibliography==
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* ''Lenin'', London: New Left Books, 1924, 1970.
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Luk%C3%A1cs_bibliography At Wikipedia]
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* ''Solzhenitsyn'', London: Merlin, 1969, 1970.
 
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* Arthur Kahn (ed.), ''Writer and Critic, and Other Essays'', London: Merlin, 1970.
 
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* ''History and Class Consciousness'', London: Merlin, 1923, 1970
 
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* ''The Ontology of Social Being''
 
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** vol. 1, ''Hegel's False and His Genuine Ontology'', London: Merlin, 1978
 
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** vol. 2, '' Marx's Basic Ontological Premises'', London: Merlin, 1978
 
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** vol. 3, ''Labour'', London: Merlin, 1980.
 
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*** [http://epistematic.blogspot.ro/2014/03/gyorgy-lukacs-ontologia-existentei.html ''Ontologia existenței sociale''], Bucuresti: Editura Politică, 1975 (in Romanian).
 
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* István Eörsi (ed.), ''Record of a Life'', London: Verso, 1983.
 
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* Tyrus Miller (ed.), ''The Culture of People's Democracy'', Leiden: Brill, 2012.
 
  
 
==Links==
 
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Luk%C3%A1cs
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Luk%C3%A1cs Lukács at Wikipedia]
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Luk%C3%A1cs_bibliography
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* http://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs
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* http://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/index.htm
 
 
* http://libcom.org/tags/georg-lukacs
 
* http://libcom.org/tags/georg-lukacs
  
 
[[Category:Marxist aesthetics|Lukacs, Gyorgy]]
 
[[Category:Marxist aesthetics|Lukacs, Gyorgy]]

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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).

Works

(in German unless noted otherwise)

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.
    • The Theory of the Novel. A historico-philosophical essay on the forms of great epic literature, trans. Anna Bostock, London: Merlin, 1962; MIT Press, 1971, ARG, 1974, PDF. (English)
  • 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. Studies in the Relations between Dialectics and Economics, trans. Rodney Livingstone, London: Merlin, 1975, PDF, IA, ARG. (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, Luchterhand, 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)
  • Zur Ontologie des gesellschaftlichen Seins. Hegels falsche und echte Ontologie, Neuwied und Berlin/Darmstadt: Luchterhand, 1971, 1973.
    • 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, trans. Radu Stoichiță and Vasile Zamfirescu, intro N. Tertulian, Bucharest: Politică, 1975, PDF, PDF, IA, ARG. (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

  • George Lichtheim, Lukacs, London: Fontana Collins, 1970. (English)

Bibliography

Links

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