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Lukács - (Historical Materialism) by Daniel Andrés López (Paperback)

Lukács - (Historical Materialism) by  Daniel Andrés López (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Daniel Andrés López offers an immanent critique of Lukács 's philosophy of praxis, drawing fundamental political, methodological and philosophical questions for Marxism.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Georg Lukács 's philosophy of praxis, penned between 1918 and 1928, remains a revolutionary and apocryphal presence within Marxism. His <em>History and Class Consciousness</em> has inspired a century of rapture and reprobation, perhaps, as Gillian Rose suggested, because of its 'invitation to hermeneutic anarchy '.</p> <p> </p> <p>In <em>Lukács: Praxis and the Absolute</em>, Daniel Andrés López radicalises Lukács 's famous return to Hegel by reassembling his 1920s philosophy as a conceptual-historical totality. This speculative reading defends Lukács while proposing an unprecedented, immanent critique. While Lukács 's concept of praxis approaches the shape of Hegel 's Absolute, it tragically fails to bear its weight. However, as López argues, Lukács 's failure was productive: it raises crucial political, methodological and philosophical questions for Marxism, offering to redeem a lost century.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Daniel Andrés López</strong>, Ph.D. (2018), La Trobe University, is an Honorary Research Associate with the Thesis Eleven Forum for Social and Political Theory. He is a regular contributor to the journal <em>Historical Materialism</em>. His writing also appears regularly in <em>Jacobin Magazine</em>.</p>

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