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

Author: Liu Zhuo
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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 pioneers 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 along the changing thread of Western ontology thought, and focuses on Lukács's texts to explore the complete thought of Marx's social-historical ontology and Lukács's social-existence ontology. Lukács conducted a profound self-criticism of his early philosophical thought, acknowledging the priority of natural existence, explaining the decisive significance of labor, highlighting the subject and subjectivity, establishing the "relationship" attribute of social existence ontology, thereby constructing a modern philosophical ontology integrating labor, practice, consciousness, and value.