György Lukács

György Lukács (13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic. He developed the theory of reification, and contributed to Marxist theory with developments of Karl Marx's theory of class consciousness.

As a literary critic Lukács was especially influential, because of his theoretical developments of realism and of the novel as a literary genre. In 1919, he was the Hungarian Minister of Culture of the government of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic (March–August 1919).

Works

(in German unless noted otherwise)

Monographs and Collected works

• Die Seele und die Formen. Essays, Berlin: Egon Fleischel, 1911; Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2011.
  • Soul and Form, Columbia University Press, 2010, PDF. (English)

• Die Theorie des Romans, Berlin: P. Cassirer, 1920; Hermann Luchterhand, 1968; Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2009, ARG.
  • The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature, trans. Anna Bostock, London: Merlin, 1962; MIT Press, 1971, ARG, 1974, PDF. (English)

• Geschichte und Klassenbewußtsein. Studien über marxistische Dialektik, 1923, ARG.
  • History and Class Consciousness, London: Merlin, 1971; MIT Press, 1972, Log. (English)

• Lenin, Vienna: Arbeiterbuchhandlung, 1924; repr., Hermann Luchterhand, 1967.
  • Lenin: A Study on the Unity of His Thought, trans. Nicholas Jacobs, London: New Left Books, 1970, ARG. (English)

• Der historische Roman, 1937; rev.ed., 1954.
  • The Historical Novel, trans. Hannah and Stanley Mitchell, London: Merlin, 1962; Beacon Press 1963, ARG. (English)
  • Le Roman Historique, ARG. (French)

• Goethe und seine Zeit, 1947, ARG.
  • Goethe and His Age, London: Merlin, 1968, ARG. (English)

• Der junge Hegel. Über die Beziehungen von Dialektik und Ökonomie, 1948.
  • The Young Hegel. Studies in the Relations between Dialectics and Economics, trans. Rodney Livingstone, London: Merlin, 1975, PDF, ARG. (English)

• Deutsche Literatur im Zeitalter des Imperialismus, 1945, ARG.

• Thomas Mann, 1949.
  • Essays on Thomas Mann, London: Merlin, 1964, ARG. (English)

• Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels als Literaturhistoriker, 1947.

• Fortschritt und Reaktion in der deutschen Literatur, 1947.

• Studies in European Realism, London: Hillway, 1950, ARG. (English)

• Existentialismus oder Marxismus, 1951, ARG.
  • Existentialisme ou Marxisme, ARG. (French)

• Deutsche Realisten des 19. Jahrhunderts, 1951, ARG.

• Balzac und der französische Realismus (Literatur), 1952.
  • Balzac et le réalisme français, Maspero, 1969, ARG. (French)

• Der russische Realismus in der Weltliteratur, Berlin, 1952.

• Die Zerstörung der Vernunft, Berlin, 1954.
  • The Destruction of Reason, London: Merlin, 1980, ARG. (English)

• Von Nietzsche zu Hitler oder der Irrationalismus und die deutsche Politik, Berlin-Spandau, 1962.

• The Meaning of Contemporary Realism, London: Merlin, 1963, ARG. (English)

• Solzhenitsyn, 1969.
  • Solzhenitsyn, trans. William David Graf, London: Merlin, 1970, ARG. (English)

• Writer and Critic, and Other Essays, ed. Arthur Kahn, London: Merlin, 1970, ARG. (English)

• Ontologie - Marx. Zur Ontologie des gesellschaftlichen Seins. Die Ontologischen Grundprinzipien bei Marx, Luchterhand, 1972.

• Ästhetik, 4 vols., 1972-76.
  • Estetica, Ediciones Grijalbo, vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4. (Spanish)

• Conversations with Lukács, ed. Theo Pinkus, London: Merlin, 1974. (English)

• Umění jako sebepoznání lidstva, ed. Petr Rákos, trans. Růžena Grebeníčková, Prague: Odeon, 1976. (Czech)

• with Adorno, Benjamin, Bloch and Brecht, Aesthetics and Politics, 1977; London: Verso, 1980, 221 pp., Log. (English)

• Zur Ontologie des gesellschaftlichen Seins. Hegels falsche und echte Ontologie, Neuwied und Berlin/Darmstadt: Luchterhand, 1971, 1973.
  • The Ontology of Social Being, London: Merlin, 1978-1980. (English)
    • Vol. 1, Hegel's False and His Genuine Ontology, 1978, ARG.
    • Vol. 2, Marx's Basic Ontological Premises, 1978, ARG.
    • Vol. 3, Labour, 1980, ARG.
      • Ontologia existenței sociale, trans. Radu Stoichiță and Vasile Zamfirescu, intro N. Tertulian, Bucharest: Politică, 1975, PDF, PDF, ARG. (Romanian)

• Gelebtes Denken. Eine Autobiographie im Dialog, ed. István Eörsi, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1981.
  • Record of a Life: An Autobiography, ed. István Eörsi, trans. Rodney Livingstone, London: Verso, 1983, 204 pp, PDF. (English)

• The Culture of People's Democracy, ed. Tyrus Miller, Leiden: Brill, 2012, ARG. (English)

Literature

• George Lichtheim, Lukacs, London: Fontana Collins, 1970. (English)

• Chicago Surrealist Group, In Memory of Georg Lukacs, Surrealist Editions, 1971, [19] pp. (English)

• Michael J. Thompson (ed.), Georg Lukács Reconsidered: Critical Essays in Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics, Continuum, 2011, 253 pp. (English)

Bibliography

• At Wikipedia

Links

• Lukács at Wikipedia
• http://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs
• http://libcom.org/tags/georg-lukacs