Georg Lukács's philosophy of praxis : from neo-Kantianism to Marxism
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Georg Lukács's philosophy of praxis : from neo-Kantianism to Marxism
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-246) and index
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Georg Lukacs' early Marxist philosophy of the 1920s laid the foundations of Critical Theory. However the evaluation of Lukacs' philosophical contribution has been largely determined by one-sided readings of eminent theorists like Adorno, Habermas, Honneth or even Lukacs himself. This book offers a new reconstruction of Lukacs' early Marxist work, capable of restoring its dialectical complexity by highlighting its roots in his neo-Kantian, 'pre-Marxist' period.
In his pre-Marxist work Lukacs sought to articulate a critique of formalism from the standpoint of a dubious mystical ethics of revolutionary praxis. Consequently, Lukacs discovered a more coherent and realistic answer to his philosophical dilemmas in Marxism. At the same time, he retained his neo-Kantian reservations about idealist dialectics. In his reading of historical materialism he combined non-idealist, non-systematic historical dialectics with an emphasis on conscious, collective, transformative praxis. Reformulated in this way Lukacs' classical argument plays a central role within a radical Critical Theory.
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Acknowledgments
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Preface by Andrew Feenberg
1. Introduction: The Need to Reconsider Lukacs' Philosophy of Praxis
First Part: Method
2. The Problem of Content: a Neo-Kantian Theme
3. Flawed Philosophical Alternatives
4. Lukacs' Materialist Theory of History
Second Part: Theory
5. The Origins of the Concept of Reification in Lukacs' Early Work
6. The Modern Form of Objectivity
7. What is Reification?
Third Part: Praxis
8. From Mystical Ethics to Transformative Praxis
9. De-reifying Capitalism
10. Limits of De-reification
11. Epilogue: The Significance of Lukacs's Philosophy of Praxis Today
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