The Lukacs Reader: A Survey

One of the greatest Marxist theorists of his generation, Georg Lukacs was a prolific writer of remarkably catholic, if moralistic, tastes. In The Lukacs Reader, his biographer Arpad Kadarkay represents the great range and variety of LukacssMoreOne of the greatest Marxist theorists of his generation, Georg Lukacs was a prolific writer of remarkably catholic, if moralistic, tastes. In The Lukacs Reader, his biographer Arpad Kadarkay represents the great range and variety of Lukacss output. The reader includes, in original translations, and with introductory essays, Lukacs on: Kierkegaard, Shakespeare, Ford, Strindberg, Ibsen, Wilde, Shaw, Gaughin, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. Also collected are: the autobiographical essay On the Poverty of Spirit, material from Lukacss diary, and such key articles as: Aesthetic Culture, The Ideology of Modernism, Bolshevism as an Ethical Problem, and Class Consciousness. What emerges is a figure very much at the centre of European thought whose value to modern culture and philosophy differs markedly from that which received opinion generally admits.