Recuperating Realism: Lukács

There are several reasons why Georg Lukács’s work on literature and aesthetics has paled from view that are not confined by Marxism falling from contemporary fashion. These have to do with the contradictions in his thought, including contradictions and repudiations that he made himself throughout his long and colorful career. Like Schelling’s philosophy, Lukács’s thought slips from anything systematic for any great length of time, which means that anyone coming to him for the first time does not know from which angle or from which era to tackle him. These irregularities are possibly a factor in accounting for why only