History and Class Consciiousness - Georg Lukacs - 1971
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"This is the first time one of the most important of early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1929, 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 materialism, 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. It 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..."
A few years after History and Class Consciousness was published, it was moved into the focus of philosophic discussion by Heidegger, in his Being and Time, a place which it maintains to this day largely as a result of the position occupied by Sartre and his followers..."
History and Class Consciiousness - Georg Lukacs. Translated by Rodney Livingstone
Published 1971, The MIT Press.
Hardcover. Approx. 6x8.5in. 356pp. Dustjacket has wear & tear along spine. Previous owner names written in front endpapers. In otherwise good condition.
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