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George Lukács: Complete Collection

Georg Lukacs - Philosophical Works + Literary History (27 books) Written by anonymous person.. included text file embedded for research: GEORG [György] LUKÁCS (1885-1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic who has been described as the preeminent Marxist intellectual of the Stalinist era. His major contributions include the formulation of a Marxist system of aesthetics that opposed political control of artists and defended humanism and an elaboration of the theory of alienation within industrial society. He one of the founders of Western Marxism, an interpretive tradition that departed from the ideological orthodoxy of the USSR. In his magnum opus, HISTORY AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS (1923), Lukács developed a unique Marxist philosophy of history and laid the basis for his critical literary tenets by linking the development of form in art with the history of the class struggle. Turning his back on the claims of Marxism to be a strictly scientific analysis of social and economic change, Lukács recast it as a philosophical worldview. Strikingly, he held that, even if all of Marx’s predictions were false, Marxism still would retain its validi

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