Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date Published: 1972-11-15
ISBN-13:9780262620208ISBN:0262620200
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Edition: TWELFTH PRINTING ( 1990 )
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780262620208ISBN:0262620200
Description: Very Good- POLITICAL HISTORY. 8vo-over 7ľ"-9ľ" tall. XLVII + 356 PAGES. Includes translator's note, prefaces, notes to the English edition, & index. Inner seam visible between pages 82-83. Book holds together well. Pencil & pen markings to a few pages only. Minor edgewear to covers & spine. read more
Edition: Reprint, 1979
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780262620208ISBN:0262620200
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7ľ"-9ľ" tall. Xlvii, 356 pp., bib. notes, index; 23 cm. First published under title: Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein. Translated from the German. Tight, clean copy. Recommended by Left Coast Books. The chapter on "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat" is one of the most important Marxist writings since Capital, extending Marx's notion of "alienation. " read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The MIT Press 1985
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780262620208ISBN:0262620200
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Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: M.I.T. PRESS (THE), CAMBRIDGE, MA
Date Published: PUB MAY 1971
ISBN-13:9780262620208ISBN:0262620200
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Merlin
Date Published: 1971
Description: Good. Cover a bit worn and sunned; Front cover damaged; Name and date written on half title page; text clean and binding tight; rest All in good condition; read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Mit Pr
Date Published: 1971-06-01
ISBN-13:9780262620208ISBN:0262620200
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Edition: Third Edition
Binding: Trade Paper
Publisher: MiT Press, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780262620208ISBN:0262620200
Description: Very Good. Light edgewear; Light scuffing on front and back covers; Discoloration on first page; Philos. read more
"I actually only read the main title essay from this collection for a Frankfurt School reading group. Hugely influential piece which is easy to detect in Dialectic of the Enlightenment & other Adorno. Still, the style is often atrocious and the thought is now profound, now vaguely ridiculous in turns. Despite all this the work is a must read for the central stage appearance of the concept of reification."
"What can I say? This book is essential reading for those wishing to get clear on the theory of alienation in Marx, or the theory that the proletariat occupies a special standpoint from which the world can be best understood. I've been reading this to help in developing criticisms of feminist standpoint theorists and it's hard to believe they even claim to have read the book (they seem to depend on the fact that the book is far less widely read than it ought be)."
"This book is important for Lukacs' concept of 'false consciousness'. Like most marxists, Lukacs assumes that consciousness is an understanding of ones class interests. False consciousness is a state where ones true consciousness is clouded by capitalism, thus classes are living with a false consciousness that can involve commodity fetishism and alienation (or reification). Only the proletariat is able to achieve true consciousness because of its opposition to capitalism. Although presumably, after the revolution, and after classes are dissolved, everyone would achieve true consciousness. One can see how the heavy hand of the state could smash consciousness into the minds of the Proletariat. And for sure, Lukacs was no stranger to advocating a strong state response (the guy was practically a Stalinist). So why is this important, then? Well, Lukacs was hinting at something very simple in this book: The working class is not always looking out for its best interests. Why else would the working class condemn unions and vote for Reactionary governments? We can simply ask ourselves whether or not this is some sort of false consciousness? Has capitalism trained us to accept the way things are?
This book greatly influenced the Situationists (which is interesting seeing that they were opposed to Soviet style communism). And it is hard to argue that this book does not advocate the iron fist."
"This book will be incomprehensible to most... although as far as substance it's on point... Literally Lukacs' ability to juggle with the western conceptions of substance is illuminating."
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