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    Krystel A.

    Bisyo

    II-BEED SET A

    Autobiography

    My name isGeorg (György) Lukács ,I was born in April 1885 and I am


    hungarian philosoper.I was a literary theorist and philosopher who is widely
    viewed as one of the founders of “Western Marxism” and as a forerunner of
    20th-century critical theory. I best known for my Theory of the Novel (1916)
    and History and Class Consciousness (1923). In History and Class
    Consciousness,I laid out a wide-ranging critique of the phenomenon of
    “reification” in capitalism and formulated a vision of Marxism as a self-
    conscious transformation of society. This text became a reference point both
    for my critical social theory and for many currents of countercultural
    thought. Even though my later work did not capture the imagination of the
    intellectual public to the same extent as my earlier writings, I still remained a
    prolific writer and an influential theorist in my later career and published
    hundreds of articles on literary theory and aesthetics, not to mention
    numerous books, including two massive works on aesthetics and ontology. I
    was also active as a politician in Hungary in both the revolution of 1919 and
    during the events of 1956. Today, My work remains of philosophical interest
    not only because it contains the promise of an undogmatic, non-reductionist
    reformulation of Marxism, but also because it combines a philosophical
    approach that draws on Neo-Kantianism, Hegel, and Marx with an acute
    cultural sensitivity and a powerful critique of modern life inspired by Weber’s
    and Simmel’s sociological analyses of modern rationalization.My major
    contributions include the formulation of a Marxist system of aesthetics that
    opposed political control of artists and defended humanism, and an
    elaboration of the theory of alienation within industrial society originally
    developed by Karl Marx (1818–83).

    1. Life and Career

    2. Early Writings

    2.1 Life and Form

    2.2 Neo-Kantian Aesthetics


    2.3 Modernity and the Loss of Totality

    3. History and Class Consciousness

    3.1 Reification Theory

    3.2 Standpoint Theory and Revolution

    3.3 Methodology and Social Ontology in History and Class Consciousness

    4. The later Lukács: Praxis, Totality, and Freedom

    4.1 The Critique of History and Class Consciousness

    4.2 Re-reading the Philosophical Tradition: Hegel and the Struggle against
    “Irrationalism”

    4.3 The Ontology of Social Being

    4.4 Aesthetics: Realism and the Work of Art as a Closed Totality

    Bibliography

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    Secondary Sources and Selected Literature

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