Mr Lukacs changes trains
Edward Timms, 19 February 1987
Georg Lukacs: Selected Correspondence 1902-1920
translated by Judith Marcus and Zoltan Tar.
Columbia, 318 pp., $25, September 1986,9780231059688 Show More
translated by Judith Marcus and Zoltan Tar.
Columbia, 318 pp., $25, September 1986,
“... When Georg Lukacs joined the Hungarian Communist Party in December 1918, his admirers were taken by surprise. This gifted young man from an affluent Jewish background, then aged 33, had previously devoted himself exclusively to cultural pursuits. After coming into prominence around 1905 as one of the instigators of the Hungarian intellectual revival, he had gone on to make his mark in Germany as a cultural theorist in the tradition of Dilthey, Simmel and Weber ... ”
