Lukacs Discussion
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Readings in communication theory and social thought
Robbie McClintock and Frank Moretti, Instructors
- Office hours:
- McClintock (322 Thompson Hall): Wednesdays, 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. and Thursdays, 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. (Schedule slot with Neemisha Martin @ 212 678 3344 or nmartin@tc.edu)
- Moretti (603 Lewisohn Hall): By appointment (Schedule time with Teresa Gonzales @ 212 854 1692 or teresa@columbia.edu)
Georg Lukacs (1885-1971)
- For a brief bio, see A Dictionary of Sociology
Discussion reading
- Georg Lukacs. History and Class Consciousness. Rodney Livingstone, trans., Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1923, 1990. "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat," pp. 83-222. Electronic Reserve. See also, The Georg Lukacs Archive, Marxists.org:- I - - II - - III - $30.00
Supplemental resources
- Martin Jay. Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukacs to Habermas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. $27.50. Jay's study deals, not only with Lukacs, but several others we will read -- Ernst Bloch, Gramsci, Horkheimer and Adorno, Marcuse, Lefebvre, Habermas, etc.
