Georg Lukacs Reconsidered: Critical Essays in Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics

Michael J. Thompson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at William Paterson University, USA. He is the author of The Politics of Inequality (Columbia University Press, 2007) and editor of Fleeing the City: Studies in the Culture and Politics of Antiurbanism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

An international team of contributors explore contemporary insights into the work of Georg Lukacs in political theory, aesthetics, ethics and social and cultural theory.

Part I: Luk cs' Philosophical Legacy 1. Luk cs's and the Idealist Legacy Stephen Eric Bronner 2. Luk cs and Marx After Marxism Tom Rockmore 3. Rethinking Reification Timothy Hall 4. Chvostismus und Dialektik: Luk cs' Reply to His Critics Michael L wy Part II: Extending Aesthetic Theory 5. A Post-Adornian Aesthetics Peter Uwe Hohendahl 6. The Development of the Novel Werner Jung 7. The Fight for Freedom of the Arts: Luk cs on Dante and Goethe J nos Keleman 8. A Hegelian-Marxist Philosophy of Political Imagination Norman Fischer Part III: Politics, Society and Critical Theory 9. Luk cs' Concept of Time Nichole Shippen 10. Luk cs' Ambivalent Jurisprudence Katie Terezakis 11. Back to History? Luk cs and the Antimonies of Communicative Critical Theory Konstantinos Kavoulakos 12. Reification and the Progress of Technology Andrew Feenberg 13. Luk cs and the Revival of Critical Theory: Reconsidering the Ontologie Michael J. Thompson Bibliography Index