A Defence of History and Class Consciousness: Tailism and the Dialectic

by Georg Lukacs

Slavoj Zizek (Afterword), John Rees (Introduction), and Esther Leslie (Translator)

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In the mid 1920s Lukács wrote a sustained and passionate response to Stalin’s onslaught on his earlier seminal work History and Class Consciousness. Unpublished at the time, Lukács himself thought that the text had been destroyed. However, a group of researchers recently found the manuscript gathering dust in the newly opened archives of the CPSU in Moscow. Now for the first time, this fascinating, polemical and intense text is available in English. It is a crucial part of a hidden intellectual history and will transform interpretations of Lukács’s oeuvre.
  • ISBN10 1859843700
  • ISBN13 9781859843703
  • Publish Date 17 August 2002
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Verso