Georg Lukács’s Philosophy of Praxis (eBook)

From Neo-Kantianism to Marxism

Konstantinos Kavoulakos (Autor)

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2018
264 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4742-6747-2 (ISBN)

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Georg Luk cs' early Marxist philosophy of the 1920s laid the foundations of Critical Theory. However the evaluation of Luk cs' philosophical contribution has been largely determined by one-sided readings of eminent theorists like Adorno, Habermas, Honneth or even Luk cs himself. This book offers a new reconstruction of Luk cs' early Marxist work, capable of restoring its dialectical complexity by highlighting its roots in his neo-Kantian, 'pre-Marxist' period. In his pre-Marxist work Luk cs sought to articulate a critique of formalism from the standpoint of a dubious mystical ethics of revolutionary praxis. Consequently, Luk cs discovered a more coherent and realistic answer to his philosophical dilemmas in Marxism. At the same time, he retained his neo-Kantian reservations about idealist dialectics. In his reading of historical materialism he combined non-idealist, non-systematic historical dialectics with an emphasis on conscious, collective, transformative praxis. Reformulated in this way Luk cs' classical argument plays a central role within a radical Critical Theory.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.9.2018
• Vorwort: Andrew Feenberg
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• ISBN-10: 1-4742-6747-5 / 1474267475
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4742-6747-2 / 9781474267472