György Lukács (1885 to 1971), known in German as Georg Lukács, was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic and aesthetician, and one of the founders of Western Marxism. Born in Budapest into a wealthy Jewish family, he took doctorates in economic and political sciences and in philosophy, and his early idealism owed much to neo-Kantianism, Plato, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Dilthey and Dostoevsky. He developed the theory of reification and carried forward Marx's theory of class consciousness, and as a critic he advanced theories of literary realism and of the novel. In 1919 he served as Minister of Culture of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic. He has been called the preeminent Marxist intellectual of the Stalinist era, although he both supported Stalinism and urged a return to pre-Stalinist Marxism.
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was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic, and aesthetician
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Lukács was born Bernát György Löwinger in Budapest
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Georg Lukacs (1885-1971) was a Hungarian philosopher
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His History and Class Consciousness reintroduced Hegelian categories into Marxist thought
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served briefly in Imre Nagy's 1956 government
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was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic, and aesthetician
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Lukács was born Bernát György Löwinger in Budapest
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was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic, and aesthetician
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was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic, and aesthetician
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He was one of the founders of Western Marxism
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He was one of the founders of Western Marxism
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contributed to Marxist theory with developments of Karl Marx's theory of class consciousness
Influenced By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Pre-Marxist period
intellectually indebted to neo-Kantianism (then the dominant philosophy in German universities) and to Plato, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Søren Kierkegaard, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Influenced By: Soren Kierkegaard, Pre-Marxist period
intellectually indebted to neo-Kantianism (then the dominant philosophy in German universities) and to Plato, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Søren Kierkegaard, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Influenced By: Wilhelm Dilthey, Pre-Marxist period
intellectually indebted to neo-Kantianism (then the dominant philosophy in German universities) and to Plato, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Søren Kierkegaard, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Influenced By: Plato, Pre-Marxist period
intellectually indebted to neo-Kantianism (then the dominant philosophy in German universities) and to Plato, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Søren Kierkegaard, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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