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The Young Lukács

by Lee Congdon
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780807865200
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of North Carolina Press
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  • Pages: 256
  • Original Price: USD 52.5
  • Language: English
  • Edition: New ed
  • Item Weight: 381 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History & Surveys / Modern

Based upon recently found manuscripts and correspondence, The Young Luk�cs is the first comprehensive and fully researched portrait of Georg Luk�cs to appear in any language. Lee Congdon finds in the young Luk�cs's estrangement from his family and from Hungarian society roots for his continuing concern with the philosophic problem of alienation.

The chance discovery in 1972 of Luk�cs's early manuscripts and correspondence has made possible an authoritative intellectual biography of this major Marxist thinker. Congdon has mined the wealth of material in the Luk�cs Archives in Budapest and drawn upon Hungarian scholarship that is all but unknown in the West. The result is a biography that reveals the relationship between the ideas Luk�cs entertained, the world in which he lived, and the conditions of his personal existence.

Congdon argues that Luk�cs's understanding of Simmel, Dostoevski, and Hegel was profoundly affected by the world of fin de si�cle Europe, the Great War, and the Russian Revolution. The evolution of Luk�cs's own ideas, Congdon finds, was an expression of his relationships with three women -- Irma Siedler, Ljena Grabenko, and Gertrud Bortstieber. No one, writing in any language, has previously examined Luk�cs's life and work in this context.

Although Congdon acknowledges some sympathy for the young Luk�cs and his enthusiasms, he shows that the brilliant and sensitive thinker, in the words of Dostoevski, "started out with the idea of unrestricted freedom and . . . arrived at unrestricted despotism." The tragedy of Luk�cs, he concludes, was that he hated injustice more than he loved human beings.

Originally published in 1983.

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