| book details |

History and Class Consciousness

By (author) Georg LukÃ¡cs, Translated by Rodney Livingstone, Preface by Michael LÃ¶wy

| on special |

normal price: R 743.95

Price: R 669.95

| add to trolley |

| book description |

History and Class Consciousness was the most important of Georg LukÃ¡cs's early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923. The subject of high praise and passionate criticism, it had a major impact on all the Marxist debates that followed, introducing key new concepts such as 'totality', 'reification' and 'imputed class consciousness'. This centenary edition, with a new preface by Michael LÃ¶wy, comprises a series of essays exploring, among other topics, the definition of orthodox Marxism, the question of legality and illegality, Rosa Luxemburg as a Marxist, the changing function of historic Marxism, and the substantiation and consciousness of the proletariat. This classic book has influenced many key philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Adorno, Debord, Heidegger, Lefebvre, Merleau-Ponty and Zizek, and it can lay claim to being one of the cornerstones of contemporary thought.