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…
A history, and not a hagiography, of the Progressive Cultural Movement in India was long overdue, but nobody attempted to undertake such a novel and noble task, as if (this is exclusively my perception) there was nothing to talk about…
The life of Georg Lukács (1885–1971), the outstanding Marxist theorist, intersected so closely with the major revolutionary events of his time that it almost constitutes a history of the twentieth-century European proletarian revolutionary movement. Joining the Hungarian Communist Party in…
Choices, Challenges, and the Historical and IntellectualSituation in Hungary and East-Central Europe In his Notes Towards an Autobiography, in 1971, Georg Lukács looks back on his youth and the beginning of his intellectual interests: Not my life in any immediate…
The current historical juncture where, on the one hand, we are witnessing the re-emergence of an atavistic fascism, and on the other, pockets of mostly fragmented progressive resistance, within a context conditioned by the phenomenon of ‘globalisation’ in its various…
Georg Lukács is one of the best-known Marxist intellectuals of the twentieth century. He acquired this reputation during the 1960s, when so-called western Marxism was considered a centrepiece of intellectual debate and with which it was necessary to be familiar…