A Defence of History and Class Consciousness

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Georg Lukacs was dubbed 'the philosopher of the October Revolution' and wrote History and Class Consciousness in 1923. This masterpiece was commonly held to be the foundational text for the tradition known as Western Marxism, a tradition which includes the work of Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse.

As the liberating energies of the Russian Revolution were sapped by Stalinism, Lukacs was subjected to ferocious attack for ...

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Overview

Georg Lukacs was dubbed 'the philosopher of the October Revolution' and wrote History and Class Consciousness in 1923. This masterpiece was commonly held to be the foundational text for the tradition known as Western Marxism, a tradition which includes the work of Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse.

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 Unpublished at the time, Lukacs himself thought the text had been destroyed.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.

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First published in Budapest in 1996, the work dates to the mid-1920s when Luk<'a>cs wrote it in defense of his earlier work, for which it provides a clarification and critique, with discussion of subjectivism, imputation, and the peasantry in questions of class consciousness; and a long excursus on the dialectic of nature. This annotated translation includes a lengthy introduction by John Rees, and a postscript by Slavoj Zizek. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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  • ISBN-13: 9781859847473
  • Publisher: Verso
  • Publication date: 7/28/2000
  • Pages: 160
  • Product dimensions: 5.58 (w) x 7.80 (h) x 0.77 (d)

Table of Contents

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
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