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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 335.4108 EAN: 9780262620208 ISBN: 0262620200 Label: The MIT Press Manufacturer: The MIT Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 404 Publication Date: November 15, 1972 Publisher: The MIT Press Studio: The MIT Press Related Items:
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 Rating:  - one foot in the class struggle, and one in the ivory towerLukacs' emphasis here on the importance of the ideological terrain in the class struggle was pathbreaking, and this book contains the fruits of a fine mind absorbed with interest and passion in the socialist cause. However the work is marred by a highly abstract and abstruse style of presentation, a style that would reach baffling lows in the writings of his followers in the Frankfort school. In these pages, Lukacs scores some palpable hits against the ideological dominance of the bourgoisie, ... Read More Rating:  - The Greatest Philosophical Work Inspired by the Russian RevolutionGeorg Lukacs, already a major figure in the intellectual avant-garde of Central Europe before, underwent a substantial transformation in and through his experience of the October Revolution in Russia and its revolutionary ramifications elsewhere. This book documents the results of that transformation at the level of thought. I depart from the reader from Phoenix's comments fundamentally - understanding this book, or that of the Frankfurt School writers who were acknowledgely inspired by it (but, by ... Read More Rating: - The Root of Critical TheoryThe grand and celebrated critiques of capitalistic techno-rationality that emerged from the Frankfurt school are all rooted in the dialectical emphasis of Lukacs. Hegelian notions of reification and alienation that Lukacs resurrected even showed up in radically mutated forms in French poststructuralism. This, as well as Horkheimer's "Dialectic of Enlightenment" are must-reads for New-Left enthusiasts who have neither the time nor the IQ to comprehend raw Hegel. Dialectical thinking is at the root of the ... Read More Rating: - replay for unchange kapitalism worldthe Lukacs' theory about History and Class Consciousness answered the question, why the socialist world not yet realized today. Lukacs said that the importance of history not in proletarian class' consciousness. and so, the borgeouis can still made the false consciousness to hegemony proletarian class. i think, it made Lukacs as a outstanding philosopher of neo-marxist today! 
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