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György Lukács

György Lukács
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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 Order of the Red Banner  — 1969
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

György Lukács (/ˈlkɑː/; 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).


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