On Young Lukács on Kierkegaard: Hermeneutic Utopianism and the Problem of Alienation  

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Price, Zachary

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Philosophy & Social Criticism vol. 25 no. 6 (Nov. 1999), page 67–82.
Topik: alienation ; faith ; reification ; subjectivity ; utopia
Fulltext: 67PSC256.pdf (232.67KB)

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Lukács’ mature theory of Hegelian Marxism has been criticized for the determinacy with which it predicts utopia as a possibility for the future. This paper instead examines Lukács’ early, pre-Marxist thinking, which asserts utopia only as the grounding concept for a procedure of cultural criticism, and not as the outcome of any foreseeable process of social change. I attempt to evaluate this non-Marxist utopianism of the young Lukács by focusing in particular on ‘The Foundering of Form Against Life: Søren Kierkegaard and Regine Olsen’, a 1910 essay in which Lukács criticizes Kierkegaard for failing to articulate any concept of utopia and for focusing instead on private ‘faith’ as a potential solution to the endemic problems of modernity, such as alienation and reification. Because young Lukács himself thus sets up Kierkegaard as a dystopian rival for his own utopian thought, I use a comparison between these two thinkers as a basis for speculation on the advantages and disadvantages of positing a normative concept of utopia as the basis for social criticism.

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