Georg Lukacs Quotes on Mind
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 mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Georg Lukacs:
“The novel tells of the adventure of interiority.”
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“The Destruction of Reason , Chapter 3, “Nietzsche as Founder of Irrationalism in the Imperialist Period” § 3”
Admirers of the ‘purified’ Nietzsche have been hard put to unite his sanctioning of barbarity with an often subtle and rarefied cultural critique. But we can easily dispose of this dichotomy. In the first place, the union of ultra-refinement and brutality was by no means a personal quirk requiring psychological elucidation, but a universal, psychical-moral distinguishing mark of imperialist decade -
“In Marx the dialectical method aims at understanding society as a whole. Bourgeois thought concerns itself with objects that arise either from the process of studying phenomena in isolation, or from the division of labor and specialisation in the different disciplines.”
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“Bourgeois thought judges social phenomena conscious or unconsciously, naïvely or subtly, consistently from the standpoint of the individual. No path leads from the individual to the totality.”
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“At this point bourgeois thought must come up against an insuperable obstacle, for its starting-point and its goal are always, if not always consciously, an apologia for the existing order.”
p. 48