7 For consistency’s sake, he would have to add art as another sub-system with its own, “autonomous” logic. 52 It would be worth investigating, to what extent the forms of self-marketing in working life find their “voluntary“ continuation in the rampant cult of beauty and physique. Firstly, it must be noted that Lukács opposes a simplified understanding of Marx’s doctrine that was catching on during the time of the 2nd International, as well as the Comintern, interpreting it as a positivist science along the lines of Karl Kautsky or Bukharin. The Frankfurt philosopher begins by clarifying that the notion of reification is part of the incompletely processed intellectual legacy of Critical Theory. Ibid, p 90. by Rodney Livingstone (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1972), 93]. )) For Ricardo, as is known, changes in the magnitude of value depend on changes of the productivity of labor. (( V. I. Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1972), 414.
As the above examples demonstrate, reification critique did not concern itself with “marginal practices” but with the central practices of a form of life in which entire bundles of practices are systematically intertwined. It should also not be ignored that Neo-Kantianism, notably through Heinrich Rickert and Emil Lask, left a lasting impression on him. 16 Georg Lukács, Preface (1967) to Geschichte und Klassenbewußtsein in GLW, Vol. The latter acknowledges as given and necessary the results and achievements of the special sciences and assigns to philosophy the task of exhibiting and justifying the grounds for regarding as valid the concepts so constructed.
The law appears universal irrespective of all such interests. 62 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus logico-philosophicus, London 1955, 186 (quoted in: Georg Lukács, Zur Ontologie des gesellschaftlichen Seins, Vol. External and internal problems,29 as well as the dominance of other scientific paradigms removed from Marxism, have caused Lukács’ theory of reification to be either ignored or received at best sporadically. Pathologien der postmodernen Gesellschaft, 134. 23 Titus Stahl, Verdinglichung als Pathologie zweiter Ordnung, in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 59, Nr.
by Martin Nicolaus (London: Penguin Books, 1973), 106. 57 If once in a while voter turnout should increase and lead to undesirable consequences, the ruling political class likes to complain about populist trends that are to be kept outside the political arena. Universal exchange has formed, according to Marx, a new order such that even those things, "which till then had been communicated, but never exchanged; given, but never sold; acquired, but never bought—virtue, love, conviction, knowledge, conscience, etc.—when everything, in short, passed into commerce." Certain completely inappropriate responses fail to recognize that Honneth is not aiming to rediscover some long-dead spectre. This alone sheds light on all the phenomena of the given society, reification as well as idealization. (( Lukács, History, 110. 79 Georg Lukács, Zur Ontologie des gesellschaftlichen Seins, Vol. However, it is baffling how one can regard as episodic the intuitionist direction in philosophy that gnostically justifies all sorts of religious folly that runs counter to the basic evidence of scientific thinking. Some Remarks on the History and the Problems of Reception, It often goes unrecognized that, in 1923, Lukács was neither a Marx-philologist nor a novice theorist, but a philosopher whose work is marked by personal experiences, intuitions, and thematic fixations.
cit. In that case, after all, there exists a so-called intuitive school (Bergson, James, etc. The experiences of our contemporary crises—according to our initial thesis—provoke the question whether it is feasible to simply renounce the great tradition of socialist and revolutionary thought. C.2. 53 Naturally there are significant differences between employees as to how they experience instances of freedom/autonomy, but that changes nothing about the self-objectification demanded by the system’s rationality. 65 In more recent, as yet to be seriously investigated mass phenomena of everyday culture [Alltagskultur] similar reification phenomena can be found. First published Mon Nov 4, 2013; substantive revision Thu Jan 18, 2018 Georg (György) Lukács (1885–1971) was a literary theorist and philosopher who is widely viewed as one of the founders of “Western Marxism”. To the extent that the ideological character of many concepts of the end of subjectivity is becoming apparent, it is possible to revive Lukács’ fundamental philosophical concept. "Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value.
), Ding und Verdinglichung. Here, Lukács treats it as a problem of capitalist society related to the prevalence of the commodity form… 2002.
This is a preview of subscription content, Cf. (( Weinstein here is referring to a translation of the first part of Lukács’s three-part essay “Die Verdinglichung und das Bewußtsein des Proletariats” [“Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat”] that appeared in Russian in Vestnik Socialističeskoj Akademii 4 (1923), 186-222.
22 Georg Lukács, Geschichte und Klassenbewußtsein, GLW Vol. Marx always demanded concreteness. M. Löwy, From Romanticism to Bolshevism, 1979); in addition to the increasingly dominant influence of Marx and Lenin, that of Rosa Luxemburg (and of syndicalism). Unable to display preview. It is completely clear that in this case the determinant for bourgeois theory is not rationality, but, on the contrary, the social relations that determine its methodology.
Take the debate about the "death of the subject." "The Reification of Consciousness: Husserl’s Phenomenology in Lukács’s Subject-Object. Precisely class relations—as the spring of social progress, as the dialectic of the social process—prevent bourgeois theorists to adopt the dialectical viewpoint. In the process of transcending the hic et nunc, a true democratic formation of collective will can take place, and culture and private life can find configurations that are appropriate to their domains. It is unclear whether at the time of writing Weinstein was unfamiliar with the second and third parts of the essay or, if he was, whether their later appearance in Russian altered his views on Lukács’s enterprise. Köln 2014. 84 When human history ceases to function as if grown out of nature, spaces for individual autonomously defined forms of law, politics, and love are created—in a new quality. It imposes its ‘quantitative’ character on the production process. The brief but exemplary abstract of a history of the relationship between the sexes ibid 517ff. 60 Despite all its deficits, among the strengths of the “Marburg School” formed around Wolfgang Abendroth and Werner Hofmann, unlike the Frankfurt school’s protagonists, counts its insistence, on the indispensable role of Marx’s theory to gain adequate insights and to be able to address practical-political problems in contemporary society. H. Marcuse, ‘La philosophie et la théorie critique’ (1937), in H. Marcuse, It is on these grounds that Marcuse will denounce the irrationality of the rationality of the mode of capitalist production in, A convergence emphasized, by the mediation of their reading of Hegel, in N. Tertullian, ‘Lukács, Adorno et la philosophie classique allemande’, in, Cf. Only after Eleanor’s suicide (and, I believe, well after, perhaps not until after Laura’s death) were the Marx-Engels papers reunited. Through fear or despair Lukács tried to accommodate Stalinism - he, and the word is fitting, denounced his own ‘History and Class Consciousness’ turning his back on ‘political’ activity and confining his Marxism to the consideration of literature, with the important exception of a brief period of activity in 1956.
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