György Lukács
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"However, with a single great exception, that of Walter Benjamin (and in his footsteps, Brecht), Marxists have not understood the consciousness industry and have been aware only of its bourgeois capitalist dark side and not of its socialist possibilities. An author such as Georg Lukacs is a perfect example of this theoretical and practical backwardness."--"Constituents of a Theory of Media" (1970) by Hans Magnus Enzensberger |
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György Lukács (April 13, 1885 – June 4, 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic. His literary criticism was a defense of realism and centered on the novel as a literary genre. His best-known works of literary theory include The Theory of the Novel (1916), his essay "Kafka or Thomas Mann?" and Realism in the Balance.
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