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OverviewGeorg Lukacs's philosophy of praxis, penned between 1918 and 1928, remains a revolutionary and apocryphal presence within Marxism. His History and Class Consciousness has inspired a century of rapture and reprobation, perhaps, as Gillian Rose suggested, because of its 'invitation to hermeneutic anarchy'. In Lukacs: Praxis and the Absolute, Daniel Andres Lopez radicalises Lukacs's famous return to Hegel by reassembling his 1920s philosophy as a conceptual-historical totality. This speculative reading defends Lukacs while proposing an unprecedented, immanent critique. While Lukacs's concept of praxis approaches the shape of Hegel's Absolute, it tragically fails to bear its weight. However, as Lopez argues, Lukacs's failure was productive: it raises crucial political, methodological and philosophical questions for Marxism, offering to redeem a lost century. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Daniel Andres LopezPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 203 Weight: 1.105kg ISBN: 9789004417670ISBN 10: 9004417672 Pages: 620 Publication Date: 17 October 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1 Prophet of Praxis: Lukacs between 1918 and 1929 2 Lukacs and Marxian Philosophy of Praxis 3 Reading Lukacs Speculatively Part 1 Towards a Theory of Praxis Introduction to Part One 1 From Immediacy to Commodity Fetishism 1 Immediacy and Method 2 Form and Content, Quantity and Quality, the Commodity 2 Reification and Totality 1 Subjective and Objective Reification; Society as Second Nature 2 The Controversy over Reification 3 Fragmentation and Crisis 3 The Standpoint of the Proletariat 1 The principle of Labour and the Proletariat as Subject-Object of History 2 In Defence of the Standpoint of the Proletariat 3 The Self-Consciousness of the Commodity Conclusion to Part One Part 2 From Theory to Praxis 4 Theory in Itself and for the Proletariat 1 The Contemplative Stance 2 The Ethical Idea of Praxis 3 The Critique of Naturalism 5 The Critique of Ideology 1 The Standpoint of the Bourgeoisie 2 Sectarian, Reformism and Vulgar Marxism 3 The Actuality of Revolution 6 The Party 1 The Party as Bearer of Imputed Consciousness 2 The Controversy over Lukacs's Leninism 3 Party and Class 7 Praxis 1 The Concept of the Proletariat in and for Itself 2 The Actuality of Praxis Part 3 Praxis and Philosophy Introduction to Part Three 8 Lukacs's Critique of Philosophy 1 The Antinomies of Bourgeois Philosophy 2 Lukacs on Hegel and the Absolute 3 Once More on Hegel, via the Young Hegelians 9 Praxis, the Absolute and Philosophy 1 The Philosophical Critiques of Lukacs 2 The Critique from History 3 The Critique from Philosophy Conclusion - Nihilism or the Virtuous Republic Bibliography IndexReviewsFor a long time Lukacs's detractors presented his early Marxist work as an idealist and subjectivist distortion of revolutionary Marxism. According to this critique, Lukacs remained too much a Hegelian, willing to substitute the proletariat for the world spirit. Recent studies question this standard interpretation by pointing out neo-Kantian and phenomenological elements in Lukacs's early philosophy that significantly deviate from Hegelianism. Instead, Daniel Lopez radically reverses the interpretative focus: What if the young Lukacs was too less a Hegelian? Adopting a higher, Hegelian philosophical standpoint, Lopez's meticulous scholarly study offers a charitable reading of History and Class Consciousness and, at the same time, criticizes its theoretical limitations. A much needed, substantial contribution to an emerging critical discussion on Lukacs and Hegelian Marxism. - Konstantinos Kavoulakos, University of Thessaloniki Lukacs: Praxis and the Absolute, by Daniel Andres Lopez, is an outstanding piece of scholarship. His knowledge of Lukacs' writings and of the vast secondary literature is simply impressive. As a philosophical reading of History and Class Consciousness (HCC), Lopez proposes a much deeper and more systematic interpretation than most, if not all, previous works on Georg Lukacs. The result is a remarkably rich and dense body of philosophical reflection; the whole is a brilliant essay in high theory, but with a strong historical and political dimension. It is a polemical piece, and makes a powerful refutation of the innumerable commentators who have criticised HCC - including Lukacs himself, in his (in)famous 1967 self-criticism . At the same time, it is not an un-critical piece, since Lopez aims at an immanent critique of Lukacs on the basis of his own viewpoint. While I may not agree with all its conclusions, Lukacs: Praxis and the Absolute is a bold and original re-interpretation of Lukacs, which appears as a major contribution for rethinking the Marxist philosophy of praxis. - Michael Loewy, Centre national de la recherche scientifique A fine study written with a Lukacsian attentiveness to the give-and-take of subjective and objective life - Daniel Lopez is touchingly sympathetic and incisively critical in equal parts. - Esther Leslie, Birkbeck For a long time Lukacs's detractors presented his early Marxist work as an idealist and subjectivist distortion of revolutionary Marxism. According to this critique, Lukacs remained too much a Hegelian, willing to substitute the proletariat for the world spirit. Recent studies question this standard interpretation by pointing out neo-Kantian and phenomenological elements in Lukacs's early philosophy that significantly deviate from Hegelianism. Instead, Daniel Lopez radically reverses the interpretative focus: What if the young Lukacs was too less a Hegelian? Adopting a higher, Hegelian philosophical standpoint, Lopez's meticulous scholarly study offers a charitable reading of History and Class Consciousness and, at the same time, criticizes its theoretical limitations. A much needed, substantial contribution to an emerging critical discussion on Lukacs and Hegelian Marxism. - Konstantinos Kavoulakos, University of Thessaloniki Lukacs: Praxis and the Absolute, by Daniel Andres Lopez, is an outstanding piece of scholarship. His knowledge of Lukacs' writings and of the vast secondary literature is simply impressive. As a philosophical reading of History and Class Consciousness (HCC), Lopez proposes a much deeper and more systematic interpretation than most, if not all, previous works on Georg Lukacs. The result is a remarkably rich and dense body of philosophical reflection; the whole is a brilliant essay in high theory, but with a strong historical and political dimension. It is a polemical piece, and makes a powerful refutation of the innumerable commentators who have criticised HCC - including Lukacs himself, in his (in)famous 1967 self-criticism . At the same time, it is not an un-critical piece, since Lopez aims at an immanent critique of Lukacs on the basis of his own viewpoint. While I may not agree with all its conclusions, Lukacs: Praxis and the Absolute is a bold and original re-interpretation of Lukacs, which appears as a major contribution for rethinking the Marxist philosophy of praxis. - Michael Loewy, Centre national de la recherche scientifique A fine study written with a Lukacsian attentiveness to the give-and-take of subjective and objective life - Daniel Lopez is touchingly sympathetic and incisively critical in equal parts. - Esther Leslie, Birkbeck '10 Questions On Georg Lukacs', published on the Progress in Political Economy (PPE) website Author InformationDaniel Andres Lopez, Ph.D. (2018), La Trobe University, is an Honorary Research Associate with the Thesis Eleven Forum for Social and Political Theory. He is a regular contributor to the journal Historical Materialism. His writing also appears regularly in Jacobin Magazine. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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