# History and Class Consciousness

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- Authors: [Georg Lukács](https://www.bookquiver.com/georg-lukacs)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2023-11-07

## Description

History and Class Consciousness was the most important of Georg Lukács’s early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923. The subject of high praise and passionate criticism, it had a major impact on all the Marxist debates that followed, introducing key new concepts such as ‘totality’, ‘reification’ and ‘imputed class consciousness’. This centenary edition, with a new preface by Michael Löwy, comprises a series of essays exploring, among other topics, the definition of orthodox Marxism, the question of legality and illegality, Rosa Luxemburg as a Marxist, the changing function of historic Marxism, and the substantiation and consciousness of the proletariat. This classic book has influenced many key philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Adorno, Debord, Heidegger, Lefebvre, Merleau-Ponty and Žižek, and it can lay claim to being one of the cornerstones of contemporary thought.

## Editions

### History and Class Consciousness

- Publisher: verso_books
- ISBN: 978-18-0429-569-4
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2023-11-07
- Language: en_GB

### History and Class Consciousness

- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6262-020-8
- Pages: 408
- Published: 1972-11-15
- Language: en_US