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As the liberating energies of the Russian Revolution were sapped by Stalinism, Lukacs was subjected to ferocious attack for 'deviations' from the 'party line' in History and Class Consciousness. In the mid-1920s he wrote Tailism and the Dialectic, a sustained and passionate response to this onslaught. Unpublished at the time, Lukacs himself thought the text had been destroyed.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, in an accomplished translation by Esther Leslie and published here with an introduction by John Rees and a postface by Slavoj Zizek. It is a crucial part of a hidden intellectual history and will transform interpretations of Lukacs's oeuvre.
| Editorial note | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Introduction to the Hungarian edition (1996) | 39 | |
| Tailism and the Dialectic | 45 | |
| Postface: Georg Lukacs as the philosopher of Leninism | 151 |
Overview
As the liberating energies of the Russian Revolution were sapped by Stalinism, Lukacs was subjected to ferocious attack for ...