Confronting Reification
Revitalizing Georg Lukacs's Thought in Late Capitalism
Published on 30. July 2020
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Hardback
338 pages
978-90-04-35758-7 (ISBN)
Description
Georg Lukacs (1885-1971) was one of the most original Marxist philosophers and literary critics of the twentieth century. His work was a major influence on what we now know as critical theory. Almost fifty years after his death, Lukacs's legacy has come under attack by right-wing extremists in his native Hungary. Despite efforts to erase his memory, Lukacs remains a philosophical gadfly.
In Confronting Reification, an international team of fourteen scholars explicate, reassess, and apply one of Lukacs's most significant philosophical contributions, his theory of reification. Based on papers presented at the 2017 Legacy of Georg Lukacs conference held in Budapest, the essays in this volume demonstrate the vitality of Lukacs's thought and its relevance.
Contributors include: Ruediger Dannemann, Frank Engster, Andrew Feenberg, Joseph Grim Feinberg, Andraz Jez, Christian Lotz, Csaba Olay, Tom Rockmore, Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker, Mariana Teixeira, Michael J. Thompson, Tivadar Vervoort, Richard Westerman, and Sean Winkler.
In Confronting Reification, an international team of fourteen scholars explicate, reassess, and apply one of Lukacs's most significant philosophical contributions, his theory of reification. Based on papers presented at the 2017 Legacy of Georg Lukacs conference held in Budapest, the essays in this volume demonstrate the vitality of Lukacs's thought and its relevance.
Contributors include: Ruediger Dannemann, Frank Engster, Andrew Feenberg, Joseph Grim Feinberg, Andraz Jez, Christian Lotz, Csaba Olay, Tom Rockmore, Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker, Mariana Teixeira, Michael J. Thompson, Tivadar Vervoort, Richard Westerman, and Sean Winkler.
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English
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Leiden
Netherlands
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 236 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
612 gr
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978-90-04-35758-7 (9789004357587)
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Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker currently teaches at Rutgers University where he is pursuing his PhD in political science. His most recently published edited books include The Political Thought of African Independence: An Anthology of Sources (Hackett, 2017) and (with Michael J. Thompson) Anti-Science and the Assault on Democracy (Prometheus, 2018).
Content
?Acknowledgments
?Notes on Contributors
?Introduction
??Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker
Part 1: Interpreting Reification: The Meaning and Origins of a Concept
1 Lukacs's Theory of Reification: An Introduction
??Andrew Feenberg
2 Categorial Forms as Intelligibility of Social Objects: Reification and Objectivity in Lukacs
??Christian Lotz
3 Reification in History and Class Consciousness
??Csaba Olay
Part 2: Philosophical Interventions in the Concept of Reification: Applications, Critiques, and Connections
4 Reification, Values and Norms: toward a Critical Theory of Consciousness
??Michael J. Thompson
5 Reification and the Mechanistic World-Picture: Lukacs and Grossmann on Mechanistic Philosophy
??Sean Winkler
6 "The Nature of Humanity, or Rather the Nature of Things" - Reification in Works of Georg Lukacs and Walter Benjamin
??Andraz Jez
7 Lukacs on Reification and Epistemic Constructivism
??Tom Rockmore
Part 3: Reification and the Idea of Socialism: Lukacs's Contributions and Its Limitations for the Renewal of Radical Politics
8 The Project of Renewing the Idea of Socialism and the Theory of Reification
?Ruediger Dannemann
9 Georg Lukacs's Archimedean Socialism
??Joseph Grim Feinberg
10 Lukacs's Idea of Communism and Its Blind Spot: Money
??Frank Engster
Part 4: Social and Political Interventions in the Idea of Reification: Gender, Race, Neoliberalism, and Populism
11 The Revolutionary Subject in Lukacs and Feminist Standpoint Theory: Dilaceration and Emancipatory Interest
??Mariana Teixeira
12 Linking Racism and Reification in the Thought of Georg Lukacs
??Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker
13 Reification and Neoliberalism: Is There an Alternative?
??Tivadar Vervoort
14 Populism and the Logic of Commodity Fetishism: Lukacs's Theory of Reification and Authoritarian Leaders
??Richard Westerman
?Index
?Notes on Contributors
?Introduction
??Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker
Part 1: Interpreting Reification: The Meaning and Origins of a Concept
1 Lukacs's Theory of Reification: An Introduction
??Andrew Feenberg
2 Categorial Forms as Intelligibility of Social Objects: Reification and Objectivity in Lukacs
??Christian Lotz
3 Reification in History and Class Consciousness
??Csaba Olay
Part 2: Philosophical Interventions in the Concept of Reification: Applications, Critiques, and Connections
4 Reification, Values and Norms: toward a Critical Theory of Consciousness
??Michael J. Thompson
5 Reification and the Mechanistic World-Picture: Lukacs and Grossmann on Mechanistic Philosophy
??Sean Winkler
6 "The Nature of Humanity, or Rather the Nature of Things" - Reification in Works of Georg Lukacs and Walter Benjamin
??Andraz Jez
7 Lukacs on Reification and Epistemic Constructivism
??Tom Rockmore
Part 3: Reification and the Idea of Socialism: Lukacs's Contributions and Its Limitations for the Renewal of Radical Politics
8 The Project of Renewing the Idea of Socialism and the Theory of Reification
?Ruediger Dannemann
9 Georg Lukacs's Archimedean Socialism
??Joseph Grim Feinberg
10 Lukacs's Idea of Communism and Its Blind Spot: Money
??Frank Engster
Part 4: Social and Political Interventions in the Idea of Reification: Gender, Race, Neoliberalism, and Populism
11 The Revolutionary Subject in Lukacs and Feminist Standpoint Theory: Dilaceration and Emancipatory Interest
??Mariana Teixeira
12 Linking Racism and Reification in the Thought of Georg Lukacs
??Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker
13 Reification and Neoliberalism: Is There an Alternative?
??Tivadar Vervoort
14 Populism and the Logic of Commodity Fetishism: Lukacs's Theory of Reification and Authoritarian Leaders
??Richard Westerman
?Index