György Lukács

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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.
  • 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)

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