Georg Lukács: Edition of Selected Correspondence

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 with his participation as a People’s Commissar in the Hungarian Communist Republic in 1919 and his many years of exile in Vienna, Berlin and Moscow, up to the uprising in 1956, Lukács’ internment in Romania and his repeated return to Budapest in 1957. Lukács’ extensive and thematically diverse work is ascribed to the scientific disciplines of philosophy and aesthetics, as well as the study of literature, political science and history. Accordingly, the complex history of reception and the impact of Lukács’ oeuvre is a changing one, and though it might be captivating in its ‘intellectual differentiation’, its access to crucial documents and material
has been limited so far.