Georg Lukács

György Lukács
Georg Bernhard Lukács von Szegedin
Born	13 April 1885 Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Died	4 June 1971(1971-06-04) (aged 86) Budapest, Hungary
Alma mater	Royal Hungarian University of Budapest University of Berlin Royal Hungarian University of Kolozsvár (J.D., 1906) University of Budapest (Ph.D., 1909)
Awards
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Neo-Kantianism (early) Western Marxism (late)
Main interests	Political philosophy, social theory, politics, literary theory, aesthetics
Notable ideas	reification, class consciousness, transcendental homelessness, the genre of tragedy as an ethical category
Influences Immanuel Kant, G.W.F. Hegel, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, Wilhelm Dilthey, Emil Lask, Georges Sorel, Vladimir Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Søren Kierkegaard
Influenced The Frankfurt School, The Praxis School, The Budapest School, Walter Benjamin, Lucien Goldmann, Imre Lakatos, Karl Polanyi, Guy Debord, Tom Rockmore, Moishe Postone, Richard D. Wolff, Costanzo Preve, Leszek Kołakowski, Karel Kosík, Fredric Jameson

György Lukács (/ˈluːkɑːtʃ/; Hungarian: [ˌɟørɟ ˈlukaːtʃ]; (or Georg Lukács) 13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic. He was one of the founders of Western Marxism, an interpretive tradition that departed from the Marxist ideological orthodoxy of the USSR. He developed the theory of reification, and contributed to Marxist theory with developments of Karl Marx's theory of class consciousness. He was also the philosopher of Leninism. He ideologically developed and organised Lenin's pragmatic revolutionary practices into the formal philosophy of vanguard-party revolution.

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).