PHILOSOPHER

György Lukács

1885 - 1971

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György Lukács (born György Bernát Löwinger; Hungarian: szegedi Lukács György Bernát; German: Georg Bernard Baron Lukács von Szegedin; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of György Lukács has received more than 1,124,453 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). György Lukács is the 149th most popular philosopher (down from 143rd in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 22nd 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 149 out of 1,267. Before him are Emanuel Swedenborg, Edith Stein, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Christian Wolff, Hippasus, and Max Stirner. After him are Louis Althusser, Adi Shankara, Max Scheler, Clement of Alexandria, Herbert Marcuse, and Carl Schmitt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, György Lukács ranks 4. Before him are Niels Bohr, Karen Blixen, and François Mauriac. After him are Alban Berg, Albert Kesselring, George S. Patton, Umberto Nobile, Ezra Pound, Hermann Hoth, Karen Horney, and Julius Streicher. Among people deceased in 1971, György Lukács ranks 7. Before him are Nikita Khrushchev, Coco Chanel, Igor Stravinsky, Louis Armstrong, Jim Morrison, and Paul Karrer. After him are Audie Murphy, Lawrence Bragg, Fernandel, Hermann Hoth, Arne Tiselius, and Theodor Svedberg.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, György Lukács ranks 29 out of 1,077. Before him are Ladislaus the Posthumous (1440), Franz Lehár (1870), Count of St. Germain (1712), Ilona Staller (1951), Victor Vasarely (1906), and Eugene Wigner (1902). After him are Viktor Orbán (1963), Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (1868), Ernő Rubik (1944), Andrew II of Hungary (1175), Mary, Queen of Hungary (1371), and Johnny Weissmuller (1904).

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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), Victor Basch (1863), George Gerbner (1919), István Mészáros (1930), Thomas Sebeok (1920), and Stanley Jaki (1924).

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