Titlebook: Lukács’s Phenomenology of Capitalism; Reification Revalued Richard Westerman Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), und

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,Introduction: The Lukács Debate,s a neo-Romantic or Idealist, and so assume that Lukács wrongly designates the proletariat as a subject somehow standing outside of social structures that it created and is capable of acting on. In contrast, more sympathetic readings, particularly those of Lucien Goldmann and Andrew Feenberg, read L

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Reality and Representation in Arts—his drafts of a philosophy of art, written at Heidelberg between 1912 and 1918, but forgotten and only published after his death. This chapter offers the most detailed account of these manuscripts in English. It contextualizes Lukács’s argument within the reaction against psychologism, which inclu

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The History of rwork should not be seen as a single, relatively unified whole. The last-written essays of the book—‘What is Orthodox Marxism?,’ ‘Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat,’ and ‘Towards a Methodology of the Problem of Organisation’—are quite different from the earlier ones in their theor

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The Interpellation of the Subjectbject is defined within the meaning-structures of consciousness. It is the subject-pole of social practice, interpellated as acting in certain ways by the objectively determined meaning of the commodity. Westerman offers a highly original reading of Lukács’s account of subjectivity by relating his a

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Self-consciousness and Identitytirely convincing, Westerman argues that its failure is more interesting than normally assumed. First, Lukács suggests that reification produces a contradictory structure within individual consciousness that fragments the subject, leaving their lives increasingly empty. While his argument may not su

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The Social and the Naturalions, and the way humans interact with this world. Andrew Feenberg identifies the same flaw in Lukács’s account, albeit with a quite different evaluation: this omission, he suggests, leads Lukács to ignore elements of domination and repression in our relation to the external world and our own natura

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Conclusion: Lukács in Late Capitalismrces of his thought, such as Hegel. He also offers suggestions as to how Lukács’s theory might be applied to understanding contemporary society, relating his argument to that of Fredric Jameson. Finally, he suggests that Lukács’s aestheticized interpretation of social forms offers a different way to

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ws by American authors of American work. As science is international, it is rare that in two different parts of the world large groups of researchers in the same field remain relatively uninformed about each other‘s work. However, during the time since the initiation of this series, a large body of

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Richard Westerman of laser-based systems and techniques. From a laser safety viewpoint, in fact, the eye has been a constant reference to research and development with lasers, due to the potential risks connected with unwanted exposure of the retina. From an application viewpoint, the laser immediately found enormou