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…
Georg Lukács places the issue of form at the centre of his early book The Theory of the Novel, and views form as integral to the humanist approach. In this context, he suggests categories such as nature, human consciousness and…
Ideas of modernism had a considerable influence on literary writers in both western and eastern parts of the world in the twentieth century. Springing from Europe modernism explained the crisis faced by people during the two world wars. It expressed…
The passing away of Professor Satish Chandra in October 2017 has been deeply mourned by the large number of colleagues, pupils and admirers, and by all who knew him and had a care for the cause of reason, objective history…
‘Unfortunately, today anybody talking in support of human rights and against fake encounters is branded a Maoist supporter. Along with that, my criticism of Hindutva politics and the caste system, which is part and parcel of what is considered “Hindu…
Translated by Nausheen Jaffery, edited by Swapna Liddle, New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2017, 172 pages, Rs 650 The publication in 2017 of the English translation of Sair-ul-Manazil by Tulika Books is part of a journey that began 197 years ago.…