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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 1,038,665 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 54 in 2019). György Lukács is the 143rd most popular philosopher (down from 138th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Hungary (down from 20th 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 143 out of 1,081Before him are Isocrates, Zhu Xi, Edith Stein, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Clement of Alexandria, and Simone Weil. After him are Martin Buber, Hans Kelsen, Duns Scotus, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Kabir, and Jean Baudrillard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, György Lukács ranks 3Before him are Niels Bohr and Karen Blixen. After him are Albert Kesselring, Hermann Hoth, Alban Berg, Julius Streicher, François Mauriac, Ezra Pound, Faisal I of Iraq, George S. Patton, and Robert Delaunay. Among people deceased in 1971, György Lukács ranks 6Before him are Nikita Khrushchev, Coco Chanel, Igor Stravinsky, Louis Armstrong, and Jim Morrison. After him are Hermann Hoth, Audie Murphy, Lawrence Bragg, Fernandel, Theodor Svedberg, and Rudolf Abel.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, György Lukács ranks 22 out of 866Before him are Louis I of Hungary (1326), Imre Kertész (1929), Jadwiga of Poland (1374), Count of St. Germain (1712), Robert Capa (1913), and Árpád (845). After him are Victor Vasarely (1906), Ernő Rubik (1944), Ilona Staller (1951), Andrew II of Hungary (1175), Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (1868), and Mary, Queen of Hungary (1371).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Hungary

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