Georg Lukacs Quotes on Knowledge
Georg Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic, one of the founders of Western Marxism. This page collects quotes attributed to Georg Lukacs on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Georg Lukacs:
“Orthodox Marxism does not imply the uncritical acceptance of the results of Marx's investigations; it refers exclusively to method.”
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“Only the dialectical conception of ... reality as a social process ... dissolves the fetishistic forms necessarily produced by the capitalist mode of production and enables us to see them as mere illusions which are not less illusory for being seen to be necessary.”
p. 13 -
“Unmediated concepts ... veil the relations between objects. ... They are, therefore, objects of knowledge, but the object which is known through them is not the capitalist system of production itself, but the ideology of its ruling class.”
pp. 13-14 -
“The function of these unmediated concepts that have been derived from the fetishistic forms of objectivity is to make the phenomena of capitalist society appear as supra-rational historical essences.”
p. 14