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As this century nears an end, it has become increasingly clear that Georg Lukács is one of the most talented intellectuals of our time, not only in the Marxist tradition, but in general. Lukács’ name is well-known, and his views are increasingly attracting attention; but it cannot be said that his thought has so far been widely studied, or that it has been studied to the degree its place in the Marxist tradition warrants or its intrinsic interest demands.
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The best, but incomplete attempt of which I am aware is G.H.R. Parkinson, Georg Lukács, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977.
For an excellent recent study, see Lee Congdon, The Young Lukács, Chapel Hill and London, The University of North Carolina Press, 1983.
See the bibliography compiled by Jürgen Hartmann, in F. Benseier (ed.), Festschrift zum achtzigsten Geburtstag von Georg Lukács, Neuwied, Luchterhand, 1965, pp. 625–696.
See F. Engels, Die Entwicklung des Sozialismus von der Utopie zu Wissenschaft, in Marx-Engels Werke, Berlin, Dietz Verlag, (1956–1968), Vol. 19, p. 188: “...that German socialists are proud to be descended not only from Saint-Simon, Fourier, and Owen, but from Kant, Fichte, and Hegel as well” (my translation, T.R.).
See K. Marx, Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Ökonomie I, Marx-Engels Werke, vol. 23, p. 27: “Basically my dialectical method is not only different from Hegel’s; it is its direct opposite.” (my translation, T.R.).
For a discussion, see Mark Poster, Existential Marxism in Postwar France. From Sartre to Althusser, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1975.
See Die Zerstörung der Vernunft, in Lukács Werke, Neuwied, Luchterhand, 1962, vol. 9, p. 498.
See Georg Lukács and Lászlo Sziklai (ed.), Demokratisierung heute und morgen, Budapest, Akad. Kiadó, 1985.
For this criticism, see K. Axelos, ‘Préface de la présente édition’, in Histoire et conscience de classe, K. Axelos and J. Bois, trans., Paris, Éditions de Minuit, 1960, p. 8: “The task of translation was extremely difficult. Lukács wrote these essays in Marxist dialectic directly in German at a time when the language of Hegel and Marx, of Goethe and Nietzsche still had many secrets for him. Since then, he has made all kinds of progress.” (my translation, T.R.).
George Steiner, Language and Silence, London, 1969, p. 295, quoted in F. Jameson, Marxism and Form, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1975, p. 160.
See François H. Lapointe, George Lukács and his Critics. An International Bibliography with Annotations, 1910–1982, London and Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1983.
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Rockmore, T. (1988). Introduction. In: Rockmore, T. (eds) Lukács Today. Sovietica, vol 51. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2897-8_1
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