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Georg Lukács
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Hungarian marxist philosopher and literary critic (1885–1971)
Georg Lukács was a Hungarian philosopher and literary critic who developed influential Marxist theories about literature, history, and society during the 20th century. His ideas shaped how scholars and critics understand the relationship between art, politics, and social change, making him one of the most important Marxist thinkers in modern intellectual history.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Hungary
- Place of birth
- Budapest
- Place of death
- Budapest
- Child
- Lajos Jánossy
- Occupation
- literary scholar
- Educated at
- Eötvös Loránd University
- Employer
- Nyugat
- Political party
- Hungarian Communist Party
- Languages spoken
- Hungarian
- Native language
- Hungarian
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- Award
- Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
- Doctoral student
- Mikhail Ovsyannikov
- Field of work
- history of literature
- Image
- Lukács György.jpg
- Work location
- Budapest
- Significant event
- Nazi book burnings
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- writing language
- German
- Commons category
- Georg Lukács
- date of death
- 1971-01-01
- topic's main category
- Category:György Lukács
- date of birth
- 1885-01-01
- member of
- Polish Academy of Sciences
- birth name
- Löwinger György Bernát
- place of burial
- Fiume Road Graveyard
- name in native language
- Lukács György
- place of detention
- Lubyanka Building
- different from
- George Lucas
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Socialism
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Works in European collections
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Encyclopedic overview
György Lukács (born Bernát György Löwinger; Hungarian: Szegedi Lukács György; German: Georg Bernard Lukács; 13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic, and aesthetician. He was one of the founders of Western Marxism, an interpretive tradition that departed from the Soviet Marxist ideological orthodoxy. He developed the theory of reification, and contributed to Marxist theory with developments of Karl Marx's theory of class consciousness. He was also a philosopher of Leninism. He ideologically developed and organised Vladimir Lenin's pragmatic revolutionary practices into the formal philosophy of vanguard-party revolution.
Lukács was especially influential as a critic due to his theoretical developments of literary realism and of the novel as a literary genre. In 1919, he was appointed the Hungarian Minister of Culture of the government of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic (March–August 1919). Lukács has been described as the preeminent Marxist intellectual of the Stalinist era, though assessing his legacy can be difficult as Lukács seemed both to support Stalinism as the embodiment of Marxist thought, and yet also to champion a return to pre-Stalinist Marxism.
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