Confronting reification : : revitalizing Georg Lukács's thought in late capitalism /

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

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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 n...

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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.
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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.

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