Exploration of the New Form of Historical Materialism -- A Study of Lukács's Ontology of Social Existence

Author: Qi Zhuohong
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: Whether Marxist philosophy has ontology is one of the hot topics in current Marxist philosophy research. Although there is no clear answer in Marx's works, Western Marxist founder Lukács, one of the creators of the school of Western Marxism, conducted an in-depth exploration of the relationship between Marxist philosophy and ontology, leaving behind valuable and profound insights for later generations. This book revisits the characteristics of ontology philosophy with the changing course of Western ontology thought as a thread, and focuses on exploring the complete thought of Marx's social-historical ontology and Lukács's social-existential ontology based on Lukács's texts. Lukács conducted a profound self-criticism of his early philosophical thought, acknowledged the priority of natural existence, explained the decisive significance of labor, emphasized the subject and subjectivity, established the "relationship" attribute of social-existential ontology, thereby constructing a modern philosophical ontology that integrates labor, practice, consciousness, and value.