Lukács: PRAXIS and the Absolute

By Daniel Andrés López

Georg Luk?cs's philosophy of praxis, penned between 1918 and 1928, remains a revolutionary and apocryphal presence within Marxism. His History and Class Consciousness has inspired a century of rapture and reprobation, perhaps, as Gillian Rose suggested, because of its 'invitation to hermeneutic anarchy'.

In Luk?cs: Praxis and the Absolute, Daniel Andr?s L?pez radicalises Luk?cs's famous return to Hegel by reassembling his 1920s philosophy as a conceptual-historical totality. This speculative reading defends Luk?cs while proposing an unprecedented, immanent critique. While Luk?cs's concept of praxis approaches the shape of Hegel's Absolute, it tragically fails to bear its weight. However, as L?pez argues, Luk?cs's failure was productive: it raises crucial political, methodological and philosophical questions for Marxism, offering to redeem a lost century.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004417672
• ISBN13: 9789004417670
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 632 Pages