Georg Lukács Summary

Biography EssayGyorgy Lukacs, whose name appeared as Georg Lukacs on his English-language publications, was one of the most important philosophers in the twentieth century and an influential theoretic... Read more

György Lukács, whose name appeared as Georg Lukács on his English-language publications, was one of the most important philosophers in the twentieth century and an influential theor... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement Lukacs is, in Dr. Thomas Mann's view "perhaps the most important critic of literature to-day"; a judgment which, com-Georg Luk�... Read more

Critical Essay by John Neubauer The motto of the late Georg Lukács' Ästhetik, 'Sie wissen es nicht, aber sic tun es', a quotation from Marx, bears strange resemblan... Read more

Critical Essay by J. Hoberman As a philosopher, Georg Lukacs demanded totality; as a personality, he seems to defy it. If his reputation—on both sides of the Danube—has fluctuated over ... Read more

Critical Essay by George Steiner [In Georg Lukács'] works two beliefs are incarnate. First, that literary criticism is not a luxury, that it is not what the subtlest of American critics... Read more

Critical Essay by Alfred Kazin The distinction of Lukács's Studies in European Realism—despite certain passages of obeisance to the Lenin-Stalin cult and some mechanical flattery... Read more

Critical Essay by Lucien Goldmann Georg Lukacs already appears as one of the most influential figures in the intellectual life of the 20th Century. (p. 165) In 1910, 13 years after having clarifie... Read more

Critical Essay by Roy Pascal [To] understand Lukács' concept of totality, we should start from the Ästhetik [Aesthetics], where its general principles are elaborated incomparably... Read more