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Record of a Life - An Autobiographical Sketch (Paperback)
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Record of a Life - An Autobiographical Sketch (Paperback)
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This revealing autobiography of the Hungarian Marxist philosopher
Georg Lukacs is centered on a series of interviews that he gave in
1969 and 1971, shortly before his death on 4 June 1971. Stimulated
by the sympathetic yet incisive questioning of the interviewer, the
Hungarian essayist Istvan Eoersi, Lukacs discusses at length the
course of his life, his years of political struggle, and his
formation and role as a Marxist intellectual. From a highly
evocative account of his childhood and school years, Lukacs
proceeds to discuss his political awakening; the debates within the
socialist movement over the First World War form the prelude to an
assessment of Tactics and Ethics, written in 1919; from there the
discussion turns to Lukacs's early major contribution to Marxist
philosophy, History and Class Consciousness. After considering at
length the years of emigration in Vienna and the Soviet Union,
Lukacs finally recalls his return to Hungary after the Second World
War, and his new position as a revolutionary left critic of
actually existing socialism. "By socialist democracy," he wrote in
1970, "I understand democracy in ordinary life, as it appears in
the Workers' Soviets of 1871, 1905 and 1917, as it once existed in
the socialist countries, and in which form it must be re-animated."
This Record of a Life, which includes an introduction by Istvan
Eoersi, furnishes a compelling tribute to a remarkable man.
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