{"product_id":"the-young-lukacs-9780807865200","title":"The Young Lukács","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Lee Congdon\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Surveys - Modern\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased upon recently found manuscripts and correspondence, \u003ci\u003eThe Young Luk�cs\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCongdon 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1983.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47579523874967,"sku":"9780807865200","price":5436.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780807865200.webp?v=1774909500","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-young-lukacs-9780807865200","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}