Research Catalog

Title

History and class consciousness; studies in Marxist dialectics [by] Georg Lukács. Translated by Rodney Livingstone.

Author

Lukács, György, 1885-1971

Publication

Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press [1971]

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Details

Additional Authors

Livingstone, Rodney

Description

xlvii, 356 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

This is the first time one of the most important of Lukács’ early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923, 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 Marxism, class consciousness, and the substantiation and consciousness of the Proletariat.

Uniform Title

Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein. English

Alternative Title

Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein.

Subject

• Proletariat
• Capitalism
• Class consciousness

Genre/Form

Books

Note

• Translation of Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

What is Orthodox Marxism? -- The Marxism of Rosa Luxemburg -- Class consciousness -- Reification and the consciousness of the Proletariat -- The phenomenon of reification -- The antinomies of bourgeois thought -- The standpoint of the proletariat -- The changing function of historical materialism -- Legality and illegality -- Critical observations on Rosa Luxemburg's "critique of the Russian Revolution" -- Towards a methodology of the problem of organisation -- Notes to the English edition.

ISBN

• 0262620200
• 0262120356

LCCN

^^^70146824^//r842

OCLC

• 143706
• SCSB-10225867

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library