Lukács, Marx and the Sources of Critical Theory

by Andrew Feenberg

Book Overview

This acclaimed book is the first comparative evaluation of two primary sources of the Western Marxist tradition: Marx's Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts and History and Class Consciousness by Georg Luk cs. Andrew Feenberg offers a new interpretation of the theories of alienation and reification as the basis of a Marxist approach to the cultural contradictions of contemporary society.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019504178X
• ISBN13: 9780195041781
• Release Date: August 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Great book

This book is extremely helpful and one of the best in the relatively limited secondary literature on Lukacs. The reading of Marx in the beginning chapters is excellent.