Recovering the Later Georg Lukács: A Study on the Unity of His Thought

Abstract

A book review of Matthew J. Smetona’s Recovering the Later Georg Lukács: A Study on the Unity of His Thought, which constitutes an important contribution to Lukács scholarship and to the debate on the concept of reification and its practical viability. Smetona embarks on a granular survey of Lukács’s so-called later writings, offering a robust and widely useful elucidation of his critical philosophy, despite neglecting how the various conceptual reiterations made by Lukács himself in the critique of reification may strengthen or enhance its underlying philosophical argument.

Key Words:

• Aesthetics and Politics
• Dialectical Materialism
• Georg Lukács
• Realism
• Reification