Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.17234/ZGB.29.2

Young Georg Lukács as a Crisis Thinker. Subjectivism and the Problem of Form

Andrew Simon Gilbert ; La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

Abstract

This paper argues that the work of the young Lukács can be read as a wide-ranging mediation on what I am labelling ›the crisis of subjectivism‹. Reading Lukács this way allows us to see important continuities between his pre-Marxist and Marxist period. Most significantly, it allows us to see how positing the proletariat as a ›subject-object‹ of history and developing a crisis diagnosis of bourgeois
society, allowed Lukács to bring the fruits of his earlier intellectual labour under conceptual control.

Keywords

Georg Lukács; aesthetics of form; crisis; marxism

Hrčak ID:

253930

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/253930

Publication date:

7.3.2021.

Article data in other languages: german

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