Recovering the Later Georg Lukács

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A Study on the Unity of His Thought

Matthew J. Smetona

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MIT Press
23 May 2023

Philosophy

New resources for the critique of capitalism in culture from the late writings of Georg Lukacs, one of the first authors in the tradition of Western Marxism.

New resources for the critique of capitalism in culture from the late writings of Georg Lukacs, one of the first authors in the tradition of Western Marxism.

The Hungarian literary critic, philosopher, and Marxist social theorist Georg Lukacs is best known for his 1923 History and Class Consciousness, in which he offered an influential critique of reification from the standpoint of a dialectical conception of totality. While Lukacs's early works have been central to the study of Marxist thought, his later works have often been dismissed as political accommodations to Stalinism. In this new study, Matthew Smetona argues for a revisionist interpretation of Lukacs's later writings on topics as diverse as aesthetics, politics, and ontology.

Smetona demonstrates that these writings reveal a methodological unity that follows directly from History and Class Consciousness, in which realism, in both literary and extraliterary senses, becomes the basis for the critique of reification. As Lukacs had demonstrated, reification is that process by which the social relations between persons seem to take on the character of a thing. Rooted in Marx's concept of commodity fetishism, the critique of reification proved, in Lukacs's hands, to be a flexible tool capable of clarifying all manner of obfuscations that arise within the social relations that capitalism produces. To recover the later work of Lukacs is to open up new horizons for Marxist cultural criticism.

By: Matthew J. Smetona
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262545372
ISBN 10: 0262545373
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 23 May 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Matthew J. Smetona is Associate Professor of Instruction at Temple University. His work centers on critical theory, the history of political thought, and the history of the novel. He is the author of Recovering the Later Georg Lukacs- A Study on the Unity of His Thought (MIT Press).