A Defence Of History And Class Consciousness - Tailism And The Dialectic

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A Defence of History and Class Consciousness: tailism and the dialectic - Georg Lukacs, Slavoj Zizek, Esther Leslie

Georg Lukacs, Slavoj Zizek, Esther Leslie

Author: Slavoj Zizek
File type: pdf
Publisher: Verso
Year: 2000
Language: English
ISBN: 1859847471,9781859847473
Time Added: Wed Feb 13 2019 13:57:40 GMT+0300 (MSK)
Author: Slavoj Zizek
File type: pdf
Size: 10 mb
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Pages: 182
Id: 576436
Time Modified: Wed Feb 13 2019 13:57:40 GMT+0300 (MSK)
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Bibtex: "Georg Lukacs and Slavoj Zizek and Esther Leslie",
"A Defence of History and Class Consciousness: tailism and the dialectic"


Georg Lukacs was dubbed "the philosopher of the October Revolution" and his masterpiece History and Class Consciousness (1923) is commonly held to be the foundational text for the tradition known as "Western Marxism" which includes the work of Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse. However, as the liberating energies of the Russian Revolution were sapped by Stalinism, Lukacs was subjected to ferocious attack for "deviations" from the "party line". In the mid-1920s, Lukacs wrote a sustained and passionate response to this onslaught. Unpublished at the time, Lukacs himself thought the text had been destroyed. However, a group of researchers recently found the manuscript gathering dust in the newly opened archives of the CPSU in Moscow. Now, for the first time, this fascinating, polemical and intense text is available in English. It is a crucial part of a hidden intellectual history and will transform interpretations of Lukacs's oeuvre.