History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics

By György Lukács

Book Overview

""History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics"" remains an intellectual tour de force, offering profound insights into the relationship between history, ideology, and the struggles for social emancipation. In this thought-provoking work, Gy rgy Luk cs explores the concept of reification, dissecting its impact on individual consciousness and collective action. Luk cs brings together Marxist theory, Hegelian philosophy, and critical analysis to expose the dehumanizing effects of capitalism and the potential for revolutionary praxis. By illuminating the connection between economic structures, ideology, and the formation of class consciousness, """"History and Class Consciousness"""" provides a crucial framework for understanding the contradictions and possibilities inherent in the modern capitalist society.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9363117693
• ISBN13: 9789363117693
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Cby Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The Root of Critical Theory

The grand and celebrated critiques of capitalistic techno-rationality that emerged from the Frankfurt school are all rooted in the dialectical emphasis of Lukacs. Hegelian notions of reification and alienation that Lukacs resurrected even showed up in radically mutated forms in French poststructuralism. This, as well as Horkheimer's "Dialectic of Enlightenment" are must-reads for New-Left enthusiasts who have neither the time nor the IQ to comprehend raw Hegel. Dialectical thinking is at the root of the philosophies of Hegel, Sartre, Heidegger, Marx, Marcuse, Adorno, Lukacs, Horkheimer, and Neumann, and this book is an excellent introduction to the ontology of capitalism as examined through a whole new cognitive apparatus: dialectical thought.

replay for unchange kapitalism world

the Lukacs' theory about History and Class Consciousness answered the question, why the socialist world not yet realized today. Lukacs said that the importance of history not in proletarian class' consciousness. and so, the borgeouis can still made the false consciousness to hegemony proletarian class. i think, it made Lukacs as a outstanding philosopher of neo-marxist today!