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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 Hardcover - 2000

by Georg Lukacs; Esther Leslie (Translator); Introduction by John Rees


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Georg Lukács (1885–1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic. Most scholars consider him to be the founder of the tradition of Western Marxism. He contributed the ideas of reification and class consciousness to Marxist philosophy and theory, and his literary criticism was influential in thinking about realism and about the novel as a literary genre. He served briefly as Hungary’s Minister of Culture following the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

Esther Leslie is a lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, London. She is the author of Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism and sits on the editorial boards of Historical Materialism, Radical Philosophy and Revolutionary History.

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  • Title A Defence of History and Class Consciousness: Tailism and the Dialectic
  • Author Georg Lukacs; Esther Leslie (Translator); Introduction by John Rees
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Edition Unstated
  • Pages 182
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Verso, London
  • Date July 2000
  • ISBN 9781859847473 / 1859847471
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.58 x 0.77 in (19.81 x 14.17 x 1.96 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00028980
  • Dewey Decimal Code 335.411

Media reviews

“Lukács’s polemic tells of a dogmatic, corrupt, ultimately murderous period in the transition from Stalinism ... it tells also of the passion, so vividly Judaic and Central European, for the life and clash of ideas.”—George Steiner, Times Literary Supplement

“We almost hear Lenin himself murmuring, it happens that for eighty years no Marxist has ever properly understood History and Class Consciousness! Splendidly translated here by Esther Leslie and contextualized by an introduction by John Rees and a conclusion by Slavoj Žižek (both of them stimulating and suggestive).”—Fredric Jameson, Radical Philosophy

About the author

Georg Lukacs (1885-1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic. Most scholars consider him to be the founder of the tradition of Western Marxism. He contributed the ideas of reification and class consciousness to Marxist philosophy and theory, and his literary criticism was influential in thinking about realism and about the novel as a literary genre. He served briefly as Hungary's Minister of Culture following the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
Esther Leslie is a lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, London. She is the author of "Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism" and sits on the editorial boards of "Historical Materialism," "Radical Philosophy" and "Revolutionary History."
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