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Ontologia do Ser Social #1
The Ontology of Social Being, Volume 1: Hegel
A study of essential philosophical categories in Hegel
- GenresPhilosophyNonfiction
124 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1960
About the author
György Lukács
334 books351 followersGyörgy Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian and critic. He is a founder of the tradition of Western Marxism, an interpretive tradition that departed from the Marxist ideological orthodoxy of the Soviet Union. 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 Lenin's pragmatic revolutionary practices into the formal philosophy of vanguard-party revolution.
His literary criticism was influential in thinking about realism and about the novel as a literary genre. He served briefly as Hungary's Minister of Culture as part of the government of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic.
His literary criticism was influential in thinking about realism and about the novel as a literary genre. He served briefly as Hungary's Minister of Culture as part of the government of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic.
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July 6, 2012The Ontology of Social Being was posthumously published. Lukacs was trying to revive Marxism, in a time when Stalinsm was no longer in vogue, and he felt the right philosophical moment had sprung forward. Moreover, with the death of Stalin, Marxism was losing its footing, and Lukacs is convinced that its footing had been standing on untenable ontological grounds. Stalin made Marxism a teleological process, that fit a rigid epistemological pattern. Marxism needed to be revived, on an ontological basis.
Three volumes have been posthumously published, and unfortunately their titles are misnomers. Volume I: Hegel, is actually more like Volume III, or at least section three of the book. The first section, which has not been published, deals with Wittgenstein, and neo-positivism, and the second section deals with ontology in general.
It's really not possible to rate this book, since it's taken out of context, and unpolished. It's clear Lukacs is using the section on Hegel to build upon an already established scaffolding, which the reader has no access too. It's also clear in places that he didn't have time to tidy up the book, and some of the coherence is lost. I'll read volumes II and III as well, and then perhaps offer a broader review that applies to all three books conjoined; after all, that was Lukacs publishing intentions.
Three volumes have been posthumously published, and unfortunately their titles are misnomers. Volume I: Hegel, is actually more like Volume III, or at least section three of the book. The first section, which has not been published, deals with Wittgenstein, and neo-positivism, and the second section deals with ontology in general.
It's really not possible to rate this book, since it's taken out of context, and unpolished. It's clear Lukacs is using the section on Hegel to build upon an already established scaffolding, which the reader has no access too. It's also clear in places that he didn't have time to tidy up the book, and some of the coherence is lost. I'll read volumes II and III as well, and then perhaps offer a broader review that applies to all three books conjoined; after all, that was Lukacs publishing intentions.
June 27, 2021
This is In my opinion, Luckacs BEST work. The ontology of social being offers whats probably the clearest and most intresting take on marx's method ive ever read.
The basic theme of the book is that historicaly specific forms of human labour generate historicaly specific ontological frameworks (ways of categorising the world). These ontological frameworks go on to shape the field of possible discourse in any perticuler moment of history.
Its like foucalt who snorted a whole bag of dialectical materialism.
11/10
Ps: because this book is an unfinished manuscript its volumes published in a wierd order. Start with volume two, then three then one.
The basic theme of the book is that historicaly specific forms of human labour generate historicaly specific ontological frameworks (ways of categorising the world). These ontological frameworks go on to shape the field of possible discourse in any perticuler moment of history.
Its like foucalt who snorted a whole bag of dialectical materialism.
11/10
Ps: because this book is an unfinished manuscript its volumes published in a wierd order. Start with volume two, then three then one.
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December 25, 2023I like Lukács, his writing is lucid and detailed without being overwrought with information for its purpose. This volume presents a critical reading of Hegel and his two ontologies (one false ontology). It's pretty overtly Marxist, and some of the reading is probably one-sided, (as it tends to always be with Lukács but he never hides it) which I will have to evaluate over time, but this was great.
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