Author: CHEN Ying, Associate Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Renmin University of China.
Abstract:
Georg Lukacs is recognized as the founding father of Western Marxism. The religious dimension in his early thoughts, which is the key to a comprehensive understanding of Lukacs’, has rarely been explored in the academia. Based on a close reading of Lukacs’ early writings, this paper delves into his Christian mysticism and Jewish mysticism to reveal those critical feature and practical feature in his thought that religious perspective illumines. Christian mysticism in Lukacs’ early writings is shaped by the context of German romanticism, exploring the reality of life, i.e., a reevaluation and representation of reflective experience of subjectivity. His Jewish mysticism, under the impact of Buber and Bloch, focuses on the immersion of subject and object. The religiosity mediated by such mysticism is connected with redemption in real life; it renounces this world and ignores the other world, the dialectical attribute of which points towards the Marxism Lukacs accepts and practices in his later period.
Keywords:
Georg Lukacs, Western Marxism, religion, mysticism, dialectics
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