György Lukács

Tags: Philosopher.

This article is about the philosopher; for the politician who was Minister of Education see György Lukács (politician).György Lukács (/ˈluːkɑːtʃ/; Hungarian: [ˌɟørɟ ˈlukaːtʃ]; 13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher aesthetician literary historian and critic. He was one of the founders of Western Marxism an interpretive tradition that departed from the Marxist ideological orthodoxy of the USSR.

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birth date

1885-04-13

birth place

Austria-Hungary, Hungary, Budapest

death date

1971-06-04

death place

Budapest, Hungarian People's Republic

era

20th-century philosophy

influenced

Karl Polanyi, Praxis School, Richard D. Wolff, Guy Debord, Frankfurt School, Walter Benjamin, Moishe Postone, Costanzo Preve, Karel Kosík, Tom Rockmore, Lucien Goldmann, Budapest School (Lukács)

influenced by

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Søren Kierkegaard, Georges Sorel, Friedrich Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, Vladimir Lenin

main interest

Aesthetics, Political philosophy, Social theory, Literary theory

notableIdea

Class consciousness, Reification (Marxism)

philosophicalSchool

Marxism