György Lukács
Philosopher, Politician
1885 – 1971
Who was György Lukács?
György Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic. He was one of the founders of Western Marxism, an interpretive tradition that departed from the Marxist ideological orthodoxy of the USSR. He developed the theory of reification, and contributed to Marxist theory with developments of Karl Marx's theory of class consciousness.
As a literary critic Lukács was especially influential, because of his theoretical developments of realism and of the novel as a literary genre. In 1919, he was the Hungarian Minister of Culture of the government of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic.
Lukács has been described as the preeminent Marxist intellectual of the Stalinist era, though assessing his legacy can be difficult as Lukács seemed to both support Stalinism as the embodiment of Marxist thought, and yet also champion a return to pre-Stalinist Marxism.
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- Born
- Apr 13, 1885
Budapest - Also known as
- Georg Lukacs
- György Lukács
- Georg Bernhard Lukács von Szegedin
- Szegedi Lukács György Bernát
- Georg Lukács
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- Hungary
- Profession
- Died
- Jun 4, 1971
Hungarian People's Republic - Resting place
- Kerepesi Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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