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About the book >.>.> This book was inspired by the revolutionary events in Russia and Eastern Europe that began in 1989. The political and economic turmoil that followed prompted questions about the continued validity and legacy of Gy?rgy Luk?cs’s critical theories to a world that had just experienced the apparent bankruptcy of communism an ideology that had risen and now seemed to have died nearly simultaneously with Luk?cs. In 1991 a visit to a major bookstore in Budapest Gy?rgy Luk?cs’s hometown resulted in the discovery of only one book on the Hun- garian philosopher and critic Hungary’s most noted intellectual in the twentieth century. In Paris a few faithful such as Nicolas Tertulian continued to teach Luk?cs at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of the Sorbonne. In New York Luk?cs’s original disciples busied themselves at the New School for Social Research dissecting his work uncovering its shortcomings while reclaiming their chairs at the University of Budapest from which they had been ousted dur- ing the communist regime swinging back and forth between East and West and enjoying the windfalls of the new world order. A few years after the initial political tremor critical aftershocks appeared on the most recent register of books in print. A two-volume Hungarian Studies on Gy?rgy Luk?cs (Budapest: Akad?miai Kiad? 1993) was edited by Luk?cs’s newly liberated countrymen for whom “it is striking to learn that Luk?cs’s influence extends even to the United States” (ix). They also felt somewhat naively that because of relative linguistic isolation only Hungarian research could fully account for Luk?cs’s thought and “provide a more reliable image of Luk?cs than that currently reflected in the international scholarly liter- ature” (ix). Unfortunately little in the volume’s nearly seven hundred pages would significantly affect the current understanding of Luk?cs’s work in the West. Luk?cs in fact wrote most of his works in German and they had been available to the West for several decades. (LL)