Georg Lukács and the Possibility of Critical Social Ontology

Contributors

Introduction

Part 1: Fundamental Aspects of Lukács ' Ontology of Social Being

1
Ontology and Labor in the Lukács ' Late Thought

Antonino Infranca and Miguel Vedda

2
Lukács and the Reshaping of Marxism: From Hartmann 's to Lukács ' Ontology

Endre Kiss

3
Lukács ' Ontology of Social Being and the Material Basis of Intentionality

Matthew J. Smetona

Part 2: Hegelian-Marxist Dimensions of Lukács ' Social Ontology

4
György Lukács ' Ontological Interpretation of Marx 's Labor Theory of Value

Murillo van der Laan

5
The Ontology of Alienation: Lukács ' Normative Theory of History

Andreas Giesbert

6
Lukács ' Late Appropriation of Hegel 's Philosophy: The Ontology of Materialist Dialectics and the Complexities of Labor as Teleological Positing

Michalis Skomvoulis

Part 3: Lukács ' Social Ontology and Contemporary Philosophy

7
On the "Constitution of Human Society": Lukács ' versus Searle 's Social Ontology

Claudius Vellay

8
Why Still Reification? Toward a Critical Social Ontology

Thomas Telios

9
Unlikely Affinities: J.L. Borges, Kuhn, Lakatos and Ontological Critique

Mario Duayer

10
The Politics of Nature, Left and Right: Comparing the Ontologies of Georg Lukács and Bruno Latour

Christoph Henning

Part 4: Toward a Critical Social Ontology

11
From Critical Theory to Critical Ontology: Back to Lukács!

Michael Morris

12
Normativity and Totality: Lukács ' Contribution to a Critical Social Ontology

Titus Stahl

13
Lukács and the Problem of Knowledge: Critical Ontology as Social Theory

Reha Kadakal

14
Marx, Lukács and the Groundwork for Critical Social Ontology

Michael J. Thompson

Index