THE LEGACY OF GEORG LUKÁCS:
AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
April 27-29, 2017
Eötvös Loránd University
And
Central European University
Final Program
THURSDAY APRIL 27
Eötvös Loránd University
Building I and Building A
(Address: Múzeum krt. 4)
9:00 – 10:30: Welcome and Introduction – Faculty Council Room, Building A, Ground Floor
Gábor Boros – Eötvös Loránd University
Janos Kelemen – Eötvös Loránd University
Michael J. Thompson – William Paterson University (USA)
10:45 – 12:15
Panel 1 – Lukács, Literature and Politics – Building I, Room 109
Presider: Ádám Takács
Norman Arthur Fischer: “The Political Meaning of Lukács’ Historical Novel”
Jack Coopey: “Idea of Form: Lukács and the Theory of the Novel: A Radical Foundation to Theories of Form and
towards a Revolutionary Philosophy of Literature”
Federico Sollazzo: “Lukács’ Legacy in the Work of Art as a Pathway to Otherness”
Anita Zsurzsan: “‘. . . but not everyone, of course, was a citizen.’ Lukács on Robert Musil”
Panel 2 – Labor, Hegel and the Ontology of Social Being – Building A, Faculty Council Room, Ground Floor
Presider: Michael J. Thompson
Michalis Skomvoulis: “Late Lukács’ Assessment of Hegel and its Philosophical Implications: Hegel in the Ontology of
Social Being”
László Ropolyi: “Social Ontology vs. Ontology of Web-Life: How to be a Materialist in the Age of the Internet”
Monika Woźniak: “Lukács and the Discussion of Entäußerung/Entfremdung in Hegel”
12:30 – 13:45 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 – 15:30
Panel 3 – Lukács, Reason and Irrationalism – Building A, Faculty Council Room, Ground Floor
Presider: Greg Zucker
G.M. Tamás: “Leaps of Faith, Leaps of Reason”
Cristian Nichitean: “Lukács’ Late Philosophy and the Critique of Irrationalism”
Panel 4 – Reification: The Legacy of a Concept – Building I, Room Bence, 228
Presider: Cody Inglis
Andraž Jež: “‘The Nature of Humanity, or rather the Nature of Things’ – Reification in the Works of Lukács and
Benjamin”
Sean Winkler: “Lukács’ Account of Reification and the Hessen-Grossmann Thesis”
Tivadar Vervoort: “Lukács’ Verdinglichung and the Critique of Late Capitalism”
Arthur Bueno: “Reification, Commodification, Exploitation: A Lukácsian Critique of Nancy Fraser”
15:45 – 17:15
Panel 5 – Lukács and the Theory of Democracy – Building A, Faculty Council Room, Ground Floor
Presider: Csaba Olay
Joseph Santiago Benavides: “Democratization in Georg Lukács’ Political Theory”
Man-kong Li: “Reconsidering the Normative Foundation of Democratic Socialism: Themes from Lukács and Márkus”
Konstantinos Gousis: “Capitalism vs. Democracy: Lukács and the Democratic Dimension of Contemporary Struggles”
Panel 6 – Ethics, Ontology and Human Rights (In Portuguese) – Building I, Room Bence, 228
Presider: Janos Kelemen
Toni Infranca: “Ontologia dell’essere sociale e Etica della Liberazione”
Fátima Maria Nobre Lopes, Adauto Lopes da Silva Filho and Valdemarim Coelho Gomes: “Elementos de uma Ética
Histórica e Social na Ontologia de Lukács”
Alexandre Aguiar dos Santos and Lucineia Scremin Martins: “‘Direitos Humanos’ Entre a Particularidad burgesa e a
Emancipação Humana”
Joeline Rodrigues de Sousa: “As Bases Ontológicas da Filosofia da Práxis”
17:30 – 18:15 BREAK
18:30 – 19:30 Keynote Lecture – Building A, Faculty Council Room, Ground Floor
Andrew Feenberg (Simon Fraser University): “Lukács’ Concept of Nature”
FRIDAY APRIL 28
Central European University
Building N15
(Address: Nádor utca 15)
9:00 – 10:30
Panel 1 – Explorations in the Concept of Totality – Room 101
Presider: Ádám Takács
Mateus Soares de Souza: “Method and Totality in Lukács: From History and Class Consciousness to the Ontology of
Social Being”
Michael Hauser: “Lukács’s Notion of ‘Concrete Totality’ in the Age of Fragmentation”
Kun Bence: “Transcendental homelessness and longing for totality in Thomas Mann”
Kaveh Boveiri: “Lukács’s Totality Contextualized”
Panel 2 – Lukács and Literary Theory – Room 106
Presider: Greg Zucker
Bruno Giancarli: “Reading The Theory of the Novel Today”
Yusuke Akimoto: “Is the Thought of the Heidelberger Ästhetik a New Kantian Dualism?”
Christian Lemuel Magaling: “Situating Georg Lukács in Philippine Literary Criticism”
Karolina Jesień: “The Popular Basis for Art in the Brecht-Lukács Debate”
10:45 – 12:15
Panel 3 – Irrationalism, Racism and Religion – Room 101
Presider: Janos Kelemen
Greg Zucker: “Lukács’ Critique of Racism in The Destruction of Reason”
Lindberg S. Campos Filho: “Lukács’ Early Critique of the Postmodern World View”
Juan Ignacio Castien Maestro: “Georg Lukács and his Analysis of Religious Phenomena”
Panel 4 - History and Class Consciousness and Dialectics Revisited – Room 106
Presider: Csaba Olay
John Rees: “An Examination of Lukács’s Defense of History and Class Consciousness in Tailism and the Dialectic”
Ivan Landa: “Orthodoxy beyond Limits? Lukács and Dialectics”
Wei Xiaoping: “The Evolution of Lukács’ Concept of the Historical Subject-Object and Its Modern Significance”
12:30 – 13:45 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 – 15:30
Panel 5 – The Political Dimensions of Reification – Room 101
Presider: Cody Inglis
Mariana Teixeira: “Unlimited Reification: Lukács on Zerissenheit and Resistance”
Joseph Grim Feinberg: “The Standpoint of the Proletariat”
Csaba Olay: “Reification in History and Class Consciousness”
Pepijn Scheepers: “Alienation and Reification in The Ontology Of Social Being, Criticism and New Pathways”
Panel 6 – New Perspectives on Lukács’ Marxism – Room 106
Presider: Greg Zucker
Frank Engster: “Lukács’ Existentialism: The Three Formula of a Revolution: Classical Marxism, Lenin and Lukács”
Pu Wang: “From ‘Commodity Fetishism’ to ‘Teleological Positing’: Lukács’ Concept of Labor and its
Relevance”
Noah Bremer: “De-Alienation as Total Personality: Placing Lukács within Contemporary Debates on the
Subject/Object Split in Marxist Ontology”
15:45 – 17:15
Panel 7 – Lukács Studies in Brazil (In Portuguese) – Room 101
Presider: Vidaclir Ortigara
Rinaldo Lara: “Lukács e a crítica da decadência da burguesia”
Vidaclir Ortigara, Patricia Torriglia and Astrid Baecker Avila: “Educação e conhencimento: uma necessária e urgente
reivindicação ontológica a partir de Lukács”
Marlon Garcia da Silva: “O avanço contraditório da desantropomorfização da realidade naciência na modernidade
burguesa”
Panel 8 – Lukács, Leninism and Stalinism – Room 106
Presider: Jordan Skinner
Chris Nineham: “The Actuality of Revolution Today”
Eugen Gabor: “György Lukács and Stalinism: A Complex Relationship and its Relevance for the Politics of the 21st
Century”
17:30 – 18:15 BREAK
18:30 – 19:30 – Keynote Lecture – Auditorium B
Stephen Eric Bronner (Rutgers University): “Lukács, Anti-Fascism and the Legacy of the Popular Front”
SATURDAY APRIL 29
Eötvös Loránd University
Building I and Building A
(Address: Múzeum krt. 4)
9:00 – 10:30
Panel 1 – Lukács and Neo-Marxism – Building I, Room Bence, 228
Presider: Ádám Takács
Endre Kiss: “Georg Lukács’ Ontology as Attempt to Reshape Neomarxism”
Georgiana Perlea: “History and Class Consciousness Meets French (neo-)Marxism, 1960”
Robert Jackson: “Lebowitz, Lukács and Postone: Subjectivity in Capital”
Panel 2 – Lukács, Method and Social Science – Faculty Council Room, Building A, Ground Floor
Presider: Csaba Olay
Ágnes Kovács: “Lukács’ ‘Philosophy of Science’: The Implications of His Thought for Contemporary Debates on the
Value-Laden Character of Scientific Inquiry”
Tamás Demeter: “The Overcoat of Hungarian Philosophy: Lukács’s Legacy for the Sociological Tradition of
Hungarian Philosophy”
10:45 – 12:15
Panel 3 – The Actuality of György Lukács – Building I, Room Bence, 228
Presider: Cody Inglis
Ronaldo Rosas Reis and Juarez Duayer: “Postmodern Irrationalism and Critical Realism”
Paulo Henrique Furtado de Araújo: “Lukács and Mészáros: Critics of Weber”
Mário Duayer: “Unlikely Affinities: Borges, Kuhn, Lakatos and the Ontological Critique”
Marcia Regina Goulart S. Stemmer “The Importance of Lukács’ Ontology for Research in Education in the 21st
Century”
Panel 4 – Reconsidering Lukács’ Theory of Reification – Faculty Council Room, Building A, Ground Floor
Presider: Greg Zucker
Rüdiger Dannemann: “Lukács’ Reification Theory and the Idea of Socialism”
Richard Westerman: “Populism and the Logic of Commodity Fetishism: Lukács’ Theory of Reification and
Authoritarian Leaders”
Panel 5 – Reflections on Lukács and the Crisis of the Archives in Budapest – Building A
Presider: Janos Kelemen
Janos Weiss: “Mein Weg zu Marx als geistige Biographie”
David Kettler: “Cultural Revolutionism: Lukács as Mentor”
Miklós Mesterházi: “Noch einmal über Größe und Verfall des Georg-Lukács-Archivs”
12:30 – 13:45 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 – 15:30
Panel 6 - Materialism, Ontology and Marxist Theory – Faculty Council Room, Building A, Ground Floor
Presider: Jordan Skinner
Murillo van der Laan: “György Lukács’ Ontological Interpretation of Marx’s Theory of Value”
Jiří Růžička: “Lukács and the New Conception of Historical Materialism”
Thomas Telios: “The Syntactic Subject: Lukács, the New Materialisms, and Beyond”
Christoph Henning: “Lukács’ Ontology and Latour’s ‘New Monism’: A Defense of the Nature-Culture Distinction”
Panel 7 – Theoretical Origins and Methodological Motifs of Lukács’ Early Marxism – Building I, Room Bence, 228
Presider: Cody Inglis
Saulius Jurga: “What is the Function of Historical Materialism? Lukács on Method”
Eric-John Russel: “Georg Lukács: An Actually Existing Antinomy”
Panel 8 – The Presence of Lukács in the Experience of the Labor, Education and Class Struggle Research Group in
Northeastern Brazil – Building A, Lecture Hall 47
Presider: Ádám Takács
Susana Jimenez: “IMO’s experience and Lukács’ Ontology: historical landmarks and main repercussions”
Valdemarin Coelho Gomes: “Theoretical production within Marxism, Education and Class Struggle Research Group:
the analyses concerning the educational complex”
Edna Bertoldo: “Lukács’ contributions to contemporary education”
Helena Freres: “The ideological turn from centrality of labor to centrality of knowledge: a mechanism in favor of
capital reproduction”
15:45 – 17:15
Panel 9 – Lukács and Political Theory – Faculty Council Room, Building A, Ground Floor
Presider: Michael J. Thompson
Alexander Minotakis: “No Dead End in Class Struggle: Lukács against T.I.N.A.”
Victor Stazzeri: “Alienation and the Polis: Lukács’ Contributions to Political Theory and Their Role in a Revolutionary
Realpolitik for out Time”
Jakub Nikodem: “Spinning Around Its Own Tail. Marek J. Siemek and His Reception of György Lukács in The Light
of Current Crisis of Liberal Democracy”
Tibor Szabo: “The Spirit of Europe: Lukács is Geneva”
Panel 10 – Ontologie, Warheit, und Kritik (In German) – Building I, Room Bence, 228
Presider: Csaba Olay
Claudius Vellay: “Georg Lukács’ Kategorie der Ontologie in seinem Alterswerk Ontologie des gesellschaftlichen Seins
in Unterschied zu derzeit florierenden Ontologie-Begriffen”
Ryu Okazaki: “Hegel und Lukács über ‘das identische Subjekt-Objekt’”
Jean-Pierre Morbois: “Knowledge, Truth and Science According to Lukács”
Panel 11 – Lukács and the Structure of his Thought – Building A, Lecture Hall 47
Presider: Cody Inglis
Deodáth Zuh: “The Quest for Synthesis: Lukács as a Comprehensive Writer and the Reinvented Tradition of Grasping
an Extensive Body of Knowledge
György Péter Hárs: “Sigmund Freud Reading Lukács”
Werner Jung: “The Continuity of Something (Die Fortsetzung von etwas) - Lukács’ early writings”
17:30 – 18:15 BREAK
18:30 – 19:30 – Keynote Lecture – Faculty Council Room, Building A, Ground Floor
Agnes Heller (New School for Social Research): “Before the Fall: On Lukács’ Soul and Form”
