Last edition Elsevier 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.
Last Edition
ISBN 13: 9781474267410
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Authors: Konstantinos Kavoulakos
Pub Date: 09/2018
Pages: 264
Illus: Illustrated
Weight: 553.00 grams
Size: 156 x 234 mm
Product Type: Hardcover
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- • “Providing a timely reassessment of Georg Luk?cs's History and Class Consciousness, Konstantinos Kavoulakos rescues the critical potential of Luk?cs's theory of reification and transformative praxis from its long-congealed history of misreading and mistranslation, letting us see it with fresh new eyes, and letting it speak to our own troubled times.” – Nikolas Kompridis, Research Professor in Philosophy and Political Thought, Australian Catholic University, Australia
- • “In its orientation toward social transformation and toward new experiments in the meaning of being human, Luk?cs's philosophy of praxis was too far ahead of its time. Its time has finally come, and Kavoulakos has given us an interpretation of Luk?cs's revolutionary Marxism that is a fit for this moment in history. His careful recovery of Luk?cs's neo-Kantian formation together with his meticulous reconstruction of the core arguments of the “Reification” essay make Kavoulakos's text a vital contribution to contemporary critical theory.” – J. M. Bernstein, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research, USA
- Konstantinos Kavoulakos is associate professor of Social and Political Philosophy/Philosophy of Culture at the University of Crete, Greece.
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 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
- References
- Index
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