biography
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Lukács, Georg or György
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pronunciation:
[lookach]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1885–1971)
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| biography:
| Marxist philosopher and critic, born in Budapest, Hungary. He took a degree in jurisprudence at Budapest (1906), then studied at Berlin and Heidelberg. He became a member of the Hungarian Communist Party in 1918, spent several years in Vienna (1919–29) and Moscow (1933–45), then returned to Budapest to a chair of aesthetics and joined Nagy's short-lived revolutionary government in 1956 as minister of culture. He was arrested and deported to Romania but allowed to return to Budapest in 1957, where he devoted himself to works on Hegel, existentialism, and aesthetics. His major books include Studies in European Realism (1948, trans 1950) and The Destruction of Reason (1955). His earlier work on Marxism, History and Class Consciousness (1923, trans 1971), was repudiated as heretical by the Russian Communist Party and later by Lukács himself. |
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