Using the technique of prepared questions, iConversations with Lukaacute;cs/i is a brilliant gathering of thoughts and insights covering topics as ontology, the techniques of manipulative societies, the pitfalls of combating Stalinism with Stalinist methods, and the problems of intellectuals in advanced capitalist societies. Above all, there is the restatement of Lukaacute;cs's unshaken conviction that the working class, with all the changes that have occurred in its way of life and composition, is still the historical carrier of social transformation.pLukaacute;cs's interlocutors in these four conversations are Hans Heinz Holz, Leo Kofler, and Wolfgang Abendroth. Each of them engages Lukaacute;cs in separate dialogues, on being and consciousness , on society and the individual , and on the elements of scientific politics . Lukaacute;cs, Abendroth, and Holz work toward a quot;Provisional Summaryquot; in the last conversation.pThe interlocutors and the editor write that quot;These conversations show very clearly the basis of abstraction in the experiences of everyday life.... This gives these conversations with Lukaacute;cs a more than anecdotal value; for the unmediated way in which thought is produced in conversation corresponds exactly to that primary level of experience, the data of everyday reality, whose theoretical value Lukacs emphasizes.... They aspire to bear witness to the living thought of one of the great men of our century, and to provide the opportunity to approach this thought by the simplest possible route.quot;
Using the technique of prepared questions, iConversations with Lukaacute;cs/i is a brilliant gathering of thoughts and insights covering topics as ontology, the techniques of manipulative societies, the pitfalls of combating Stalinism with Stalinist methods, and the problems of intellectuals in advanced capitalist societies. Above all, there is the restatement of Lukaacute;cs's unshaken conviction that the working class, with all the changes that have occurred in its way of life and composition, is still the historical carrier of social transformation.pLukaacute;cs's interlocutors in these four conversations are Hans Heinz Holz, Leo Kofler, and Wolfgang Abendroth. Each of them engages Lukaacute;cs in separate dialogues, on being and consciousness , on society and the individual , and on the elements of scientific politics . Lukaacute;cs, Abendroth, and Holz work toward a quot;Provisional Summaryquot; in the last conversation.pThe interlocutors and the editor write that quot;These conversations show very clearly the basis of abstraction in the experiences of everyday life.... This gives these conversations with Lukaacute;cs a more than anecdotal value; for the unmediated way in which thought is produced in conversation corresponds exactly to that primary level of experience, the data of everyday reality, whose theoretical value Lukacs emphasizes.... They aspire to bear witness to the living thought of one of the great men of our century, and to provide the opportunity to approach this thought by the simplest possible route.quot;