Confronting reification : : revitalizing Georg Lukács's thought in late capitalism / / Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker.

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 166
• TeilnehmendeR: Smulewicz-Zucker, Gregory R., 1983-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 166.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Includes index.

Georg Lukács (1885-1971) was one of the most original Marxist philosophers and literary critics of the twentieth century. His work was a major influence on what we now know as critical theory. Almost fifty years after his death, Lukács’s legacy has come under attack by right-wing extremists in his native Hungary. Despite efforts to erase his memory, Lukács remains a philosophical gadfly. In Confronting Reification , an international team of fourteen scholars explicate, reassess, and apply one of Lukács’s most significant philosophical contributions, his theory of reification. Based on papers presented at the 2017 Legacy of Georg Lukács conference held in Budapest, the essays in this volume demonstrate the vitality of Lukács’s thought and its relevance. Contributors include: Rüdiger Dannemann, Frank Engster, Andrew Feenberg, Joseph Grim Feinberg, Andraž Jež, Christian Lotz, Csaba Olay, Tom Rockmore, Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker, Mariana Teixeira, Michael J. Thompson, Tivadar Vervoort, Richard Westerman, and Sean Winkler.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker -- Part 1: Interpreting Reification: The Meaning and Origins of a Concept -- 1 Lukács’s Theory of Reification: An Introduction -- Andrew Feenberg -- 2 Categorial Forms as Intelligibility of Social Objects: Reification and Objectivity in Lukács -- Christian Lotz -- 3 Reification in History and Class Consciousness -- Csaba Olay -- Part 2: Philosophical Interventions in the Concept of Reification: Applications, Critiques, and Connections -- 4 Reification, Values and Norms: toward a Critical Theory of Consciousness -- Michael J. Thompson -- 5 Reification and the Mechanistic World-Picture: Lukács and Grossmann on Mechanistic Philosophy -- Sean Winkler -- 6 “The Nature of Humanity, or Rather the Nature of Things” – Reification in Works of Georg Lukács and Walter Benjamin -- Andraž Jež -- 7 Lukács on Reification and Epistemic Constructivism -- Tom Rockmore -- Part 3: Reification and the Idea of Socialism: Lukács’s Contributions and Its Limitations for the Renewal of Radical Politics -- 8 The Project of Renewing the Idea of Socialism and the Theory of Reification -- Rüdiger Dannemann -- 9 Georg Lukács’s Archimedean Socialism -- Joseph Grim Feinberg -- 10 Lukács’s Idea of Communism and Its Blind Spot: Money -- Frank Engster -- Part 4: Social and Political Interventions in the Idea of Reification: Gender, Race, Neoliberalism, and Populism -- 11 The Revolutionary Subject in Lukács and Feminist Standpoint Theory: Dilaceration and Emancipatory Interest -- Mariana Teixeira -- 12 Linking Racism and Reification in the Thought of Georg Lukács -- Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker -- 13 Reification and Neoliberalism: Is There an Alternative? -- Tivadar Vervoort -- 14 Populism and the Logic of Commodity Fetishism: Lukács’s Theory of Reification and Authoritarian Leaders -- Richard Westerman -- Index.