Georg Lukacs - From Romanticism to Bolshevism

On the 100th anniversary of the publication of History and Class Consciousness, a new edition of this indispensable guide to Lukács's thought and politics

List of contents

Preface to the New Edition
Acknowledgements

Introduction
I Towards a Sociology of the Anti-Capitalist Intelligentsia
1 Intellectuals as a Social Category
2 The Anti-Capitalist Radicalization of Intellectuals
3 The Anti-Capitalism of Intellectuals in Germany
4 The Revolutionary Intelligentsia in Hungary

II How an Intellectual Becomes a Revolutionary: Lukács 1909–19
1 Lukács’s Anti-Capitalism and Tragic View of the World
2 The Passage to Communism

III Lukács’s Leftist Period (1919–21)
1 Ethical Ultra-Leftism: 1919
2 Political Leftism: 1920
3 Left Bolshevism: 1921
4 The Problematic of the Reign of Freedom

IV ‘History and Class Consciousness’: 1923
V Lukács and Stalinism

Appendix: Interview with Ernst Bloch
Index

About the author

Michael Löwy is Research Director of Sociology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. His previous books include Redemption and Utopia: Liberation Judaism in Central Europe, Marxism in Latin America and The War of the Gods: Religion and Politics in Latin America.A translator from Romanian, Spanish, German, French, and Italian, Patrick Camiller has translated many works, including Dumitru Tsepeneag's Vain Art of the Fugue, The Necessary Marriage, and Hotel Europa.

Summary

On the 100th anniversary of the publication of History and Class Consciousness, a new edition of this indispensable guide to Lukács's thought and politics

Product details

• Authors: Michael Loewy, Michael Lowy, Michael Löwy
• Assisted by: Patrick Camiller (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2023
• EAN: 9781804295496
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-549-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History of Ideas, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, PHILOSOPHY / Social, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Marxism & Communism