Georg Lukács

rationality and crisis

Timothy Hall

pp. 31-59

in: Andrew Simon Gilbert, The crisis paradigm, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Abstract

Marxism has invested more significance into the concept of crisis than perhaps any other modern intellectual tradition. Yet, for Marx, crisis was usually (though not always) used as a word which referred to economic events. In his thought, the relationship between crisis and political action remained largely implicit and unclarified. This problem of the gap between crisis as structurally determined phenomena and crisis as the impetus for revolution has long stood as one of the central questions of Marxist theory. One of the most impressive efforts to think through this dilemma is contained within the philosophy of Hungarian Marxist, Georg Lukács.

Cited authors

Lukács György

Marx Karl