Lukács: Reification

Author: Chu Jianji
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Publish Date: 2001-11-01
Features: In addition to briefly reviewing Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and Husserl, the "four great thinkers," in the introductory work The Sources of Modern Thought, this book also dedicates thirty volumes to reviewing thirty prominent philosophers and thinkers of modern Western philosophy, providing a comprehensive elaboration and meticulous analysis of their philosophical ideas, which holds academic value. Second, the selection of material is appropriate, with the chosen figures being highly representative. Third, the perspective is novel, offering reference value.
Lukács (1885–1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary historian. He studied law and philosophy/aesthetics at the University of Budapest and the University of Berlin. In the historical conditions of the turn of the century, how to restore the wholeness of endangered human existence? Lukács embarked on contemplation to seek answers to this question. In 1918, he joined the Communist Party and participated in the Hungarian Revolution. After the revolution's failure, he fled Vienna and later went to Moscow, where he worked at the Institute of Philosophy of the State Academy of Sciences. Upon returning to Hungary, he became a professor at the University of Budapest. His major works include The Development of the Modern Drama, Soul and Form, Theory of the Novel, History and Class Consciousness, and others.