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…
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…
Illustrations of Successful Use of Mathematics in Neoclassical Economics In the literature of mainstream (read, neoclassical) economics I can think of three examples of successful use of mathematics whose theorems are verified by proper empirical tests. The first is the…
Lately there has been an aggressive projection of the falling levels of poverty in India, by national as well as international agencies. It is therefore anachronistic that the period from 1993–94 to 2009–10 saw a steady decline of per-capita per-day…
During 1990–2009, India witnessed a very peculiar trend: of declining per capita calorie consumption along with a rise in per capita real income. However, in the survey of 2011–12 there was evidence of a substantial rise in calorie consumption, particularly…