History And Class Consciousness Georg Lukacs by Georg Lukacs 9781804295694, 1804295698 instant download after payment.

Preface to the centenary edition (2023)
Georg Lukács’s Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein (History and Class Consciousness) is a unique work. No other book of Marxist philosophy had such a deep and lasting influence, well beyond the borders of Central Europe and the historical context of the early 1920s. It became a decisive reference for many important thinkers, such as Ernst Bloch, Karl Mannheim, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Jean- Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Henri Lefebvre, Lucien Goldmann, Karel Kosik, Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Roberto Schwarz—among others. And it is still being avidly read, studied, discussed and criticized a hundred years after its publication.
At the heart of this masterful Hegelian-Marxist essay—or rather collection of essays—lies a remarkable synthesis (Aufhebung) between ethics and politics, subject and object, future and present, and final goal and immediate circumstances. Unfortunately, part of the discussion about the book has been side-tracked into a byzantine, metaphysical dispute over the dialectics of nature. In fact, Lukács did not deny it: he simply distinguished between ‘the merely objective dialectics of nature’ and the dialectics of history, in which “the subject is included in the reciprocal relation in which
theory and practice become dialectical with reference to each other”.1 What is forgotten in this controversy is that History and Class Consciousness (HCC) is, above all, a political-philosophical essay on the proletarian revolution against capitalist reification.