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History and class consciousness : studies in Marxist dialectics by Georg Lukács; Rodney Livingstone (transl.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This is the first time one of the most important of Lukács' early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923, has been made available in English. The book consists of a series of essays treating, among other topics, the definition of orthodox Marxism, the question of legality and illegality, Rosa Luxemburg as a Marxist, the changing function of Historic Marxism, class consciousness, and the substantiation and consciousness of the Proletariat.Writing in 1968, on the occasion of the appearance of his collected works, Lukács evaluated the influence of this book as follows:"For the historical effect of History and Class Consciousness and also for the actuality of the present time one problem is of decisive importance: alienation, which is here treated for the first time since Marx as the central question of a revolutionary critique of capitalism, and whose historical as well as methodological origins are deeply rooted in Hegelian dialectic. It goes without saying that the problem was omnipresent. A few years after History and Class Consciousness was published, it was moved into the focus of philosophical discussion by Heidegger in his Being and Time, a place which it maintains

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Author

Georg Lukács; Rodney Livingstone (transl.)

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

1972

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262120357

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, Political Science, Social Science

Rating

4.03 / 5 (2,378 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14