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

Sommario

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

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Michael Loewy, Michael Lowy, Michael Löwy
• Con la collaborazione di: Patrick Camiller (Traduzione)
• Editore: Verso
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.11.2023
• EAN: 9781804295496
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-549-6
• Pagine: 256
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; History of Ideas, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, PHILOSOPHY / Social, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Marxism & Communism