Irrationalism: Lukacs and the Marxist View of Reason

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by  Rockmore, Tom

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TOM ROCKMORE
IRRATIONAI,ISM
Lukacs and the Marxist View of Reason
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Philadelphia
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Temple University Press, Philadelphia 19122
Copyright © 1992 by Temple University. All rights reserved
Published 1992
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rockmore, Tom, 1942-
Irrationalism: Lukacs and the Marxist view of reason / Tom
Rockmore.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-8772.2.-867-1
1. Lukacs, Gyorgy, 1885-1971. 2. Philosophy, Marxist. 3. Reason
History-20th century. 4. Irrationalism (Philosophy)-
HistorY-20th century. I. Title.
B4815·L84R64 1992
199'·439-dc2.0 91-15639
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Irrationalism: Lukacs and the Marxist View of
Reason I
ONE
Marx on Philosophy and Ideology 15
TWO
Philosophy and Science, Ideology and Truth 33
THREE
Epistemological Irrationality 55
FOUR
Marxian Economics and Neo-Kantian Philosophy 79
FIVE
The Antinomies of Bourgeois Thought 103
SIX
The Standpoint of the Proletariat 129
SEVEN
Hegel's Objective Idealism and Dialectical Materialism 153
EIGHT
Philosophical and Political Irrationalism 175
NINE
Lukacs's Social Ontology 215
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CONTENTS
CONCLUSION
A Marxist View of Reason? 243
NOTES 253
INDEX 311
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IRRATIONAl/ISM
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