Studies of tea plantations generally tend to start at a point when the gardens have already come into being. So dominant becomes the presence of miles after miles of garden acreage in a region, say in the Duars or Assam,…
Recent studies of the contemporary situation of labour in neoliberal economies and of labour movements have emphasized a ‘decline of trade unionism’. This assessment is widespread and holds true for India, especially when we consider that the period following large-scale…
The current number of Social Scientist is the second and final one discussing the work and life of György Lukács, the Marxist philosopher and literary theorist. Perhaps no other person’s life straddles so comprehensively the vast expanse of twentieth-century socialist…
The purpose of this note is to look at certain formulations in Györg Lukács’ little booklet called Lenin, published in 1924, shortly after Lenin’s death, and to examine whether their validity extends beyond the specific historical context in which they…
The young Lukács sought the transcendence of soul and form, self and objectifications, the antinomies of ideas and reality. His early work and early essays in the Hungarian and German press, the essays of Soul and Form, The History of…
The intellectual biography of Georg Lukács (1885–1971) is fundamentally connected to the political transformation processes and revolutionary upheavals of the twentieth century: starting with Lukács’ early occupation with aesthetic questions and his turn to the communist movement in 1917–18, continuing…
In the Austrian context, as also the European context, the task of remembering has become a self-evident cultural activity. What however remains in the shadow of collective memory is the historical project that began with the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917…
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895–1975) and György Lukács (1885–1971) were contemporaries in life and in the history of ideas. Both thinkers were not at ease in their relationships with the governments whose shade and shadows they lived under. Both were forced…
This article is an attempt to reconstruct the trajectory of György Lukács’ days spent in the former Soviet Union and delineate the dynamics of his creative interventions during this period. An important issue would be to investigate the attitude of…
1885 Birth in Budapest 1902–06 Student in Budapest and Berlin 1904–08 Thalia Society, involvement in theatre 1906 Doctorate in Cluj (Kolozsvár). 1906–07 Monograph, ‘The History of Development of Modern Drama’, wins prize 1909 One semester in university in Berlin; friendship…