Can I read Georg Lukács : record of a life, an autobiographical sketch on EtoBox?

Georg Lukács : record of a life, an autobiographical sketch by Georg Lukács is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Georg Lukács : record of a life, an autobiographical sketch about?

This revealing autobiography of the Hungarian Marxist philosopher Georg Lukcs is centered on a series of interviews that he gave in 1969 and 1971, shortly before his death on 4 June 1971. Stimulated by the sympathetic yet incisive questioning of the interviewer, the Hungarian essayist Istvn Ersi, Lukcs discusses at length the course of his life, his years of political struggle, and his formation and role as a Marxist intellectual. From a highly evocative account of his childhood and school years, Lukcs proceeds to discuss his political awakening; the debates within the socialist movement over the First World War form the prelude to an assessment of Tactics and Ethics , written in 1919; from there the discussion turns to Lukcs's early major contribution to Marxist philosophy, History and Class Consciousness . After considering at length the years of emigration in Vienna and the Soviet Union, Lukcs finally recalls his return to Hungary after the Second World War, and his new position as a revolutionary left critic of actually existing socialism. "By socialist democracy," he wrote in 1970, "I understand democracy in ordinary life, as it appears in the Workers' Soviets of 1871, 1905

Author

Georg Lukács

Publisher

Schocken Books

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9780860917717

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Memoir