Georg Lukacs Quotes
Georg Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic, one of the founders of Western Marxism. His History and Class Consciousness reintroduced Hegelian categories into Marxist thought and developed the analysis of reification, the process by which social relations come to appear as relations between things. The quotes below are attributed to Georg Lukacs, organized by topic.
Georg Lukacs on Happiness
-
Attributed to Georg Lukacs:
“Happy are the ages for which the starry sky is the map of all possible paths.”
Georg Lukacs on Mind
-
Attributed to Georg Lukacs:
“The novel tells of the adventure of interiority.”
Georg Lukacs on Politics
-
Attributed to Georg Lukacs:
“Reification is the necessary, immediate reality of every person living in capitalist society.”
-
Attributed to Georg Lukacs:
“The chapter dealing with the fetish character of the commodity contains within itself the whole of historical materialism.”
Georg Lukacs on Truth
-
Attributed to Georg Lukacs:
“Orthodox Marxism does not imply the uncritical acceptance of the results of Marx's investigations; it refers exclusively to method.”