A Defence of History and Class Consciousness
A Defence of History and Class Consciousness: Tailism and the Dialectic Georg Lukacs, John Rees, Slovoj Zizek, Esther Leslie (Translator)
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 1859843700
Edition: Paperback; 2002-08
Summary:
Georg Lukÿcs was dubbed "the philosopher of the October Revolution"
and his masterpiece History and Class Consciousness (1923) is
commonly held to be the foundational text for the tradition known as
"Western Marxism" which includes the work of Theodor Adorno, Walter
Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse. However,
as the liberating energies of the Russian Revolution were sapped by
Stalinism, Lukÿcs was subjected to ferocious attack for "deviations"
from the "party line". In the mid-1920s, Lukÿcs wrote a sustained and
passionate response to this onslaught. Unpublished at the time,
Lukÿcs himself thought the text had been destroyed. However, a group
of researchers recently found the manuscript gathering dust in the
newly opened archives of the CPSU in Moscow. Now, for the first time,
this fascinating, polemical and intense text is available in English.
It is a crucial part of a hidden intellectual history and will
transform interpretations of Lukÿcs's oeuvre.
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