The Young Hegel: Studies in the Relations between Dialectics and Economics (The MIT Press) - Hardcover

Lukacs, Georg & Rodney Livingstone

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262120704 ISBN 13: 9780262120708

Publisher: The MIT Press, 1976

Synopsis

"If we are to understand not only the direct impact of Marx on the development of German thought but also his sometimes extremely indirect influence, an exact knowledge of Hegel, of both his greatness and his limitation, is absolutely indispensable."- from the preface"If we are to understand not only the direct impact of Marx on the development of German thought but also his sometimes extremely indirect influence, an exact knowledge of Hegel, of both his greatness and his limitation, is absolutely indispensable."- from the preface.It is well known that Hegel exerted a major influence on the development of Marx's thought. This circumstance led Lukács, one of the chief Marxist theoreticians of this century, to embark on his exploration of Hegelian antecedents in the German intellectual tradition, their concrete expression in the work of Hegel himself, and later syntheses of seemingly contradictory modes of though. Four phases of Hegel's intellectual development are examined: "Hegel's early republican phase," "the crisis in Hegel's views on society and the earliest beginnings of his dialectical method," "rationale and defense of objective idealism," and "the breach with Schelling and The Phenomenology of Mind." Lukács completed this study in 1938, but because of the imminent outbreak of war, it was not published until the late 1940s. A revised German edition appeared in 1954, and it is this text that is the basis of this first English translation of the work.

About this title

About the Author:

Georg Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic.

Language Notes:

Text: English, German (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0262120704
• ISBN 13: 9780262120708
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 576