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).

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. (in English)
  • Die Theorie des Romans, 1920; Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2009.
    • The Theory of the Novel, London: Merlin, 1971. (in English)
  • Geschichte und Klassenbewußtsein, 1923.
  • Lenin, 1924.
    • Lenin, London: New Left Books, 1970. (in English)
  • Der historische Roman, 1937; rev.ed., 1954.
    • The Historical Novel, London: Merlin, 1962. (in English)
  • Goethe und seine Zeit, 1947.
    • Goethe and His Age, London: Merlin, 1968. (in English)
  • Der junge Hegel. Über die Beziehungen von Dialektik und Ökonomie, 1948.
    • The Young Hegel, London: Merlin, 1975. (in English)
  • Deutsche Literatur im Zeitalter des Imperialismus, 1945.
  • Thomas Mann, 1949.
    • Essays on Thomas Mann, London: Merlin, 1964. (in English)
  • Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels als Literaturhistoriker, 1947.
  • Fortschritt und Reaktion in der deutschen Literatur, 1947.
  • Studies in European Realism, London: Hillway, 1950. (in 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. (in English)
  • Von Nietzsche zu Hitler oder der Irrationalismus und die deutsche Politik, Berlin-Spandau, 1962.
  • The Meaning of Contemporary Realism, London: Merlin, 1963. (in English)
  • Der russische Realismus in der Weltliteratur, 1964.
  • Solzhenitsyn, 1969.
    • Solzhenitsyn, London: Merlin, 1970. (in English)
  • Writer and Critic, and Other Essays, ed. Arthur Kahn, London: Merlin, 1970. (in English)
  • Ontologie - Marx. Zur Ontologie des gesellschaftlichen Seins. Die Ontologischen Grundprinzipien bei Marx, 1972.
  • Ästhetik, 4 vols., 1972-76.
  • Conversations with Lukács, ed. Theo Pinkus, London: Merlin, 1974. (in English)
  • Umění jako sebepoznání lidstva, ed. Petr Rákos, trans. Růžena Grebeníčková, Prague: Odeon, 1976. (in Czech)
  • with Adorno, Benjamin, Bloch, Brecht, Aesthetics and Politics, 1977; London: Verso, 1980, 221 pp.
  • The Ontology of Social Being, London: Merlin, 1978-80. (in English)
    • Vol. 1, Hegel's False and His Genuine Ontology, 1978.
    • Vol. 2, Marx's Basic Ontological Premises, 1978.
    • Vol. 3, Labour, 1980.
  • Gelebtes Denken. Eine Autobiographie im Dialog, ed. István Eörsi, 1981.
  • Record of a Life, ed. István Eörsi, London: Verso, 1983. (in English)
  • Zur Ontologie des gesellschaftlichen Seins, in Werke Bd. 14, 1984.
  • The Culture of People's Democracy, ed. Tyrus Miller, Leiden: Brill, 2012. (in English)

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