By Tom Rockmore
This can be the 1st particular learn, following the hot cave in of political Marxism in japanese Europe, of twentieth-century Hungarian thinker Georg Lukács and his place because the best proponent of the Marxist concept of cause. Lukács's background and sophistication realization has been known as one of many 3 such a lot influential philosophical works of this century, and he, the phenomenal Marxist thinker. Marxism has lengthy suffered relative overlook in philosophical dialogue because of its personal invidious contrast among itself and the intended irrationality of what it regards as bourgeois philosophy.
Tom Rockmore bargains a uniquely unique philosophical research of Lukács's complete place as a idea of cause, according to the excellence among cause and unreason, or irrationalism. the writer offers specified emphasis to Lukács's connection to German neo-Kantianism, relatively Lask, and on his final, unfinished work.
Rockmore starts with an account of the roots of Lukács's Marxism, by means of an in-depth research of his usually pointed out, yet nonetheless incompletely understood, seminal essay "Reification and the category awareness of the Proletariat." He then lines the evolution and later dying of the excellence among cause and irrationalism in Lukács's ultimate proposal. the writer therefore makes on hand for the 1st time in English a strictly philosophical dialogue of Georg Lukács's Marxist section and brings attention of his notion into the broader philosophical discussion.
Reviews:
"This booklet may be an important contribution to the knowledge of Marxism now not as a political blueprint or in basic terms social thought yet as a latest method to take care of the deeply threatening cloud of Unreason in human affairs and in human figuring out. Rockmore supplies attention-grabbing readings of the 2 peaks of Lukács's Marxist notion. this can be one of many few makes an attempt at an interpretation and an overview of Lukács after his flip to Marx after 1918. And it truly is noteworthy too for Rockmore's critical rejections of a lot of Lukács's writings inside his both transparent admiration for the man's intelligence, scholarship, and inventive philosophical insights."
—Robert S. Cohen, Professor of Physics and Philosophy, Boston college
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14 This comment appears less odd if we recall that in the period immediately after Hegel's death it was widely felt that philosophy had come to an end in Hegel's thought. Many contemporary writers believed that if there was anything more to do, it had to be done outside the philosophical domain. 15 Marx's comments on Ludwig Feuerbach are appreciative. 16 He credits Feuerbach with showing that philosophy is a form of religion, and, as such, another mode of human alienation, with having founded genuine materialism and positive science on the social relationship of individuals, and with opposing the Hegelian principle of the negation of the negation.
Like the representative of most, perhaps all, major conceptual approaches, Marxists display a wide range of conflicting views on any given issue. That this is not better known, that it is often held that all Marxists are staunch representatives of the same view, is no more nor less plausible than the similarly erroneous assertion that there is uniformity among all analytic philosophers or the conviction that all phenomenologists basically agree. Although Marxists form a diverse group, they also share certain views in virtue of which they are, or can be said to be, or describe themselves as, Marxist.
The discussion begins with a remark about the importance of taking stock of where one stands with respect to the Hegelian dialectic. 14 This comment appears less odd if we recall that in the period immediately after Hegel's death it was widely felt that philosophy had come to an end in Hegel's thought. Many contemporary writers believed that if there was anything more to do, it had to be done outside the philosophical domain. 15 Marx's comments on Ludwig Feuerbach are appreciative. 16 He credits Feuerbach with showing that philosophy is a form of religion, and, as such, another mode of human alienation, with having founded genuine materialism and positive science on the social relationship of individuals, and with opposing the Hegelian principle of the negation of the negation.