Georg Lukacs - Philosophy & Literary Criticism (5 books)

GEORG LUKÁCS (1885-1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic.

Described as the preeminent Marxist intellectual of the Stalinist era, he developed the theory of reification, and contributed to Marxist theory with developments of the class consciousness theory by Karl Marx. The chief philosophical work included here is the 3-volume ONTOLOGY OF SOCIAL BEING (1978-80), a systematic treatment of dialectical philosophy in its materialist form.

Lukács was also an influential literary critic because of his theoretical developments of realism and of the novel as a literary genre. His important work in literary criticism began early in his career, with THE THEORY OF THE NOVEL (1971), a seminal work in literary theory and the theory of genre. The book is a history of the novel as a form, and an investigation into its distinct characteristics.

In SOUL AND FORM (1974), Lukács provides a series of critical readings of Rudolph Kassner, Soren Kierkegaard, Novalis, Theodor Storm, Stefan George, and others.


The following books are in PDF format:

* THE ONTOLOGY OF SOCIAL BEING, VOL. 1: Hegel's False and His Genuine Ontology (Merlin Press, 1978). Translated by David Fernbach.

* THE ONTOLOGY OF SOCIAL BEING, VOL. 2: Marx's Basic Ontological Principles (Merlin Press, 1978). Translated by David Fernbach.

* THE ONTOLOGY OF SOCIAL BEING, VOL. 3: Labour (Merlin Press, 1980). Translated by David Fernbach.

* SOUL AND FORM (MIT Press, 1974). Translated by Anna Bostock.

* THE THEORY OF THE NOVEL: A Historico-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature (MIT Press, 1971). Translated by Anna Bostock.