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György Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic, and aesthetician. He was one of the founders of Western Marxism, an interpretive tradition that departed from the Soviet Marxist ideological orthodoxy. He developed the theory of reification, and contributed to Marxist theory with developments of Karl Marx's theory of class consciousness. He was also a philosop…
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culture · Hungarian philosopher and critic (1885–1971) · philosopher · politician · writer · university teacher · sociologist · literary critic · art historian · philosopher of culture · literary historian · literary scholar · also Georg Lukács, György Lukács, Georg Lukacs, Lukács
Born 13 April 1885 · Died 4 June 1971 · Q151523
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s view, the new party could win social leadership only by persuasion instead of force. Lukács envisioned an alliance between the dissident communist Hungarian Revolutionary Youth Party, the revolutionary Hungarian Social Democratic Party and his own Soviet-aligned party as a very junior partner. Following the defeat of the Revolution, Lukács was deported to the Socialist Republic of Romania with the rest of Nagy
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“s view, the new party could win social leadership only by persuasion instead of force. Lukács envisioned an alliance between the dissident communist Hungarian Revolutionary Youth Party, the revolutionary Hungarian Social Democratic Party and his own Soviet-aligned party as a very junior partner. Following the defeat of the Revolution, Lukács was deported to the Socialist Republic of Romania with the rest of Nagy”
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Dhaka Tribune: Reification and resistance: Art, literature, and the critique of capitalism in Lukács’ thought
Libcom: The Culture of People’s Democracy - Georg Lukács
Libcom: Tactics and Ethics: 1919–1929 - Georg Lukács
Under the title A Defence of History and Class Consciousness
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Died 1971-06-04.
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“Communist ethics make it the highest duty to accept the necessity to act wickedly. This, he said, was the greatest sacrifice the revolution asked from us. The conviction of the true communist is that evil transforms itself into bliss through the dialectics of historical evolution.”
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Awarded Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt (1970).
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Awarded Order of the Red Banner (1969).
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Cited:"Even though my ideas were confused from a theoretical point of view, I saw the revolutionary destruction of society as the one and only solution to the cultural contradictions of the epoch
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Lukács became more publicly critical of the Soviet Union and the Hungarian Communist Party
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Career landmark: Minister of Public Instruction (1956–1956).
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Lukács became a minister of the brief communist revolutionary government led by Imre Nagy, which opposed the Soviet Union
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Awarded Kossuth Prize (1955).
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Career landmark: member of the National Assembly of Hungary (1953–1957).
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Awarded Kossuth Prize (1948).
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Lukács and his wife returned to Hungary
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Career landmark: member of the Provisional National Assembly (1945–1945).
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Lukács was arrested by the NKVD, but released on August 26
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In his work Realism in the Balance, a polemic against Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht and Theodor Adorno, Lukács explained the lack of modernism in the Soviet Union in this way:
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Then in Hungarian in 1947), as well as in his essay "Realism in the Balance" (1938)
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Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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And in 1933 he once again left Berlin for Moscow to attend the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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While residing in Budapest, Lukács was summoned to Moscow
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Shortly after Lenin's death, Lukács published in Vienna the short study Lenin: A Study in the Unity of His Thought (Lenin: Studie über den Zusammenhang seiner Gedanken)
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Published a critical review of Nikolai Bukharin's manual of historical materialism
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Lukács's collection of essays History and Class Consciousness contributed to debates concerning Marxism and its relation to sociology, politics and philosophy
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Was appointed the Hungarian Minister of Culture of the government of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic (March–August 1919)
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Lukács fled from Hungary to Vienna
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In Vienna, a fellow member of the Hungarian Communist Party
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The last year of the First World War (1914–1918), the Sunday Circle became divided
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Lukács returned to Budapest, where he was the leader of the "Sunday Circle", an intellectual salon
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Married the Russian political activist Jelena Grabenko
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Whilst in Heidelberg, he befriended Max Weber, Emil Lask, Ernst Bloch, and Stefan George
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Studied at Eötvös Loránd University (1909).
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Completed his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Budapest under the direction of Zsolt Beöthy
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Because he did not think the jury was fit to judge it
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Studied at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (1907).
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From the Royal Hungarian University of Kolozsvár
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Born 1885-04-13.
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