Marxist Totalität - György Lukács and the Budapest School
Dr Magdalena Radomska

  • Marxist Totalität - György Lukács and the Budapest School

    Krzysztof M. Bednarski, „Portrait of Karl Marx”, 1978

The meeting will cover the philosophy of György Lukács, especially the importance of the term Totalität to Marxism, aesthetics theories of Lukács and the Budapest School.

The lecture will also present the exceptional awareness of Hungarian neo-avant-garde artists, conditioned by their knowledge of Marxism, which enabled them to take a unique critical stance towards the totalitarian communist ideology and the totalitarian discourse of the West, which opposed the same. Equipped with the philosophical tools of Marxism, those artists remained distrustful towards the seemingly omnipotent discourses and had the courage to present criticism, not in the form of straightforward opposition or apoliticism, but in the form of deconstruction of the communist system by means of Marxist philosophy. From among the theoreticians of the Budapest School, we will take a closer look at Ágnes Heller and György Márkus.

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