PHILOSOPHER

György Lukács

1885 - 1971

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György Lukács (born Bernát György Löwinger; Hungarian: Szegedi Lukács György; German: Georg Bernard Lukács; 13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic, and aesthetician. He was one of the founders of Western Marxism, an interpretive tradition that departed from the Soviet Marxist ideological orthodoxy. He developed the theory of reification, and contributed to Marxist theory with developments of Karl Marx's theory of class consciousness. He was also a philosopher of Leninism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. György Lukács is the 156th most popular philosopher (down from 149th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Hungary (down from 29th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Hungarian Philosopher.

György Lukács is most famous for his Marxist interpretation of Hegelian dialectics.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, György Lukács ranks 156 out of 1,267. Before him are Buddhaghosa, Emanuel Swedenborg, John Venn, Han Fei, Louis Althusser, and Friedrich Schleiermacher. After him are Clement of Alexandria, Max Stirner, Max Scheler, Hans Kelsen, Ibn Tufail, and Oswald Spengler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, György Lukács ranks 9. Before him are Princess Alice of Battenberg, Ezra Pound, Faisal I of Iraq, Clementine Churchill, Alban Berg, and Karen Blixen. After him are Albert Kesselring, George S. Patton, François Mauriac, Hermann Hoth, Julius Streicher, and Hugo Boss. Among people deceased in 1971, György Lukács ranks 9. Before him are Coco Chanel, Lawrence Bragg, Louis Armstrong, Jim Morrison, Paul Karrer, and John Boyd Orr. After him are Wendell Meredith Stanley, Audie Murphy, Giorgos Seferis, Fernandel, Hermann Hoth, and J. D. Bernal.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, György Lukács ranks 31 out of 1,077. Before him are Edgar Ætheling (1051), Jadwiga of Poland (1374), Anne of Bohemia and Hungary (1503), Ilona Staller (1951), Eugene Wigner (1902), and Count of St. Germain (1712). After him are Dennis Gabor (1900), Ladislaus the Posthumous (1440), Andrew II of Hungary (1175), Viktor Orbán (1963), Ernő Rubik (1944), and Mary, Queen of Hungary (1371).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Hungary

Among philosophers born in Hungary, György Lukács ranks 2. Before him are Rudolf Steiner (1861). After him are Imre Lakatos (1922), Ágnes Heller (1929), Ervin László (1932), István Mészáros (1930), George Gerbner (1919), Thomas Sebeok (1920), Victor Basch (1863), and Stanley Jaki (1924).

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