Lukács, Irrationalism and Marxist Reason

Based on some of your requests, we have created a video where we address Lukács's later work and the meaning of irrationalism. We analyze Marxist reason in contradistinction to neo-Kantian thought, we touch on what is most distinctive about philosophy for Marx and Engels and how Marx breaks with both Kant and Hegel.

From a Marxist point of view, the practical aim of philosophy is to bring about human freedom and human freedom in capitalist society requires the activation and the organization of the proletariat to realize and overcome class domination.

References:

Lukács, Georg The Destruction of Reason Verso Books, 2021
Lukács, Georg History and Class Consciousness MIT Press, 1992
Lukács, Georg "Moses Hess and the Problem of Idealist Dialectics" from Tactics and Ethics Verso Books, 2014
Lukács, Georg "Intellectual Workers’ and the Problem of Intellectual Leadership” from Tactics and Ethics Verso Books, 2014
Lenin, Vladimir "What Is to Be Done" https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni...
Frederick C. Beiser The Genesis of Neo-Kantianism, 1796–1880 Oxford University Press, 2014
Rockmore, Tom Irrationalism: Lukacs and the Marxist View of Reason Temple University Press, 1991

Check out our symposium on Lukács' The Destruction of Reason (   • Philosophy and the Rise of Fascism  )

Supplemental reading:
Tutt, Daniel "The Question of Worldview and Class Struggle in Philosophy: On the Relevance of Lukács' The Destruction of Reason" Cosmonaut Magazine February, 2022 https://cosmonautmag.com/2022/02/the-...

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