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Georg LukÃ cs: From Romanticism to Bolshevism

By (author) Michael LÃ¶wy, Translated by Patrick Camiller

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The philosophical and political development that converted Georg LukÃ¡cs from a distinguished representative of Central European aesthetic vitalism into a major Marxist theorist and Communist militant has long remained an enigma. In this this now classic study, Michael LÃ¶wy for the first time traced and explained the extraordinary mutation that occurred in LukÃ¡cs's thought between 1909 and 1929. Utilizing many as yet unpublished sources, LÃ¶wy meticulously reconstructed the complex itinerary of LukÃ¡cs's thinking as he gradually moved towards his decisive encounter with Bolshevism. The religious convictions of the early LukÃ¡cs, the peculiar spell exercised on him and on Max Weber by Dostoyevskyan images of pre-revolutionary Russia, the nature of his friendships with Ernst Bloch and Thomas Mann, were amongst the discoveries of the book. Then, in a fascinating case-study in the sociology of ideas, LÃ¶wy showed how the same philosophical problematic of Lebensphilosophie dominated the intelligentsias of both Germany and Hungary in the pre-war period, yet how the different configurations of social forces in each country bent its political destiny into opposite directions. The famous works produced by LukÃ¡cs during and after the Hungarian Commune-Tactics and Ethics, History and Class Consciousness and Lenin-were analysed and assessed. A concluding chapter discussed LukÃ¡cs's eventual ambiguous settlement with Stalinism in the thirties, and its coda of renewed radicalism in the final years of his life. In this new edition, LÃ¶wy has added a substantial new introduction which reassess the nature of LukÃ¡cs's thought in the light of newly published texts and debates.

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