April 13th 2010 was the 125th anniversary of Georg Lukács’s birth. It is not an awesomely round one; however, it might be a good occasion to examine how people who have or had to do with Lukács think about him, about some momentum, important for them, of his career or works. And it would be risky for us, mortals, to wait for the next round anniversary. To organize a right-and-real conference, a proper one with lunch, dinner and sight-seeing tour, has not been within the possibilities of the Lukács Archives; in fact, no-one could organize such a monumental conference which might “house” everybody we would be glad to invite – unless in an imaginary world: that of the internet. – It is to such an imaginary conference we have invited several (many) of you, asking you to write an essay (analysis, recollection, the like) for us. Many are those whom our invitation to the conference could not reach in time; some we remembered a bit late though we should have remembered them in the first round – so we have given up the deadline indicated at the outset: contributions to our home page are arriving continually.
As you can see for yourself.
Alex Bandy: György Lukács and Gábor Kovács
Holger Politt: Georg Lukács über Rosa Luxemburg
John Clendaniel: The Revolutionary Marxism of Lukács’s Blum Theses
Lee Congdon: Living with Lukács
Michael J. Thompson: Ontology and Totality: Reconstructing
Lukács’ Concept of Critical Theory
Panagiotis Noutsos: Le problème de la «direction intellectuelle» chez G. Lukács
Peter Bürger: Verschüttete Spuren. Georg Lukács in der Frankfurter Schule
Rüdiger Dannemann: Ursprünge radikalen Philosophierens beim Frühen Lukács
Sebastian Kleinschmidt:
Proletarischer Kairos
Georg Lukács’ „Geschichte und Klassenbewußtsein“
Tom Rockmore: Lukacs on Rationality and Irrationality
Werner Jung:
Die Zeit – das depravierende Prinzip.
Kleine Apologie von Georg Lukács‘ Romanpoetik