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This unique set of essays explores the thought of Georg Lukács, specifically his attempt to ground an ethical Marxism in his conception of social ontology.
List of contents
Contributors
Introduction
Part 1: Fundamental Aspects of Lukács ' Ontology of Social Being
1
Ontology and Labor in the Lukács ' Late Thought
Antonino Infranca and Miguel Vedda
2
Lukács and the Reshaping of Marxism: From Hartmann 's to Lukács ' Ontology
Endre Kiss
3
Lukács ' Ontology of Social Being and the Material Basis of Intentionality
Matthew J. Smetona
Part 2: Hegelian-Marxist Dimensions of Lukács ' Social Ontology
4
György Lukács ' Ontological Interpretation of Marx 's Labor Theory of Value
Murillo van der Laan
5
The Ontology of Alienation: Lukács ' Normative Theory of History
Andreas Giesbert
6
Lukács ' Late Appropriation of Hegel 's Philosophy: The Ontology of Materialist Dialectics and the Complexities of Labor as Teleological Positing
Michalis Skomvoulis
Part 3: Lukács ' Social Ontology and Contemporary Philosophy
7
On the "Constitution of Human Society": Lukács ' versus Searle 's Social Ontology
Claudius Vellay
8
Why Still Reification? Toward a Critical Social Ontology
Thomas Telios
9
Unlikely Affinities: J.L. Borges, Kuhn, Lakatos and Ontological Critique
Mario Duayer
10
The Politics of Nature, Left and Right: Comparing the Ontologies of Georg Lukács and Bruno Latour
Christoph Henning
Part 4: Toward a Critical Social Ontology
11
From Critical Theory to Critical Ontology: Back to Lukács!
Michael Morris
12
Normativity and Totality: Lukács ' Contribution to a Critical Social Ontology
Titus Stahl
13
Lukács and the Problem of Knowledge: Critical Ontology as Social Theory
Reha Kadakal
14
Marx, Lukács and the Groundwork for Critical Social Ontology
Michael J. Thompson
Index
About the author
Michael J. Thompson is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at William Paterson University (USA). He received a BA in Languages and Literature from Rutgers College, studied sociology and philosophy at Humboldt Universität in Berlin, and earned his Ph.D. in Political Science at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His books include
The Politics of Inequality (Columbia, 2017),
The Domestication of Critical Theory (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016),
The Specter of Babel: A Reconstruction of Political Judgment (SUNY Press, 2019) as well as the forthcoming,
Twilight of the Self: The Eclipse of Autonomy in Modern Society (Stanford).
Summary
This unique set of essays explores the thought of Georg Lukács, specifically his attempt to ground an ethical Marxism in his conception of social ontology.
