Michael J. Thompson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at William Paterson University, USA. He is the author of The Politics of Inequality (Columbia University Press, 2007) and editor of Fleeing the City: Studies in the Culture and Politics of Antiurbanism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

• Part I: Lukacs' Philosophical Legacy; 1. Lukacs's and the Idealist Legacy Stephen Eric Bronner; 2. Lukacs and Marx After Marxism Tom Rockmore; 3. Rethinking Reification Timothy Hall; 4. Chvostismus und Dialektik: Lukacs' Reply to His Critics Michael Lowy; Part II: Extending Aesthetic Theory; 5. A Post-Adornian Aesthetics Peter Uwe Hohendahl; 6. The Development of the Novel Werner Jung; 7. The Fight for Freedom of the Arts: Lukacs on Dante and Goethe Janos Keleman; 8. A Hegelian-Marxist Philosophy of Political Imagination Norman Fischer; Part III: Politics, Society and Critical Theory; 9. Lukacs' Concept of Time Nichole Shippen; 10. Lukacs' Ambivalent Jurisprudence Katie Terezakis; 11. Back to History? Lukacs and the Antimonies of Communicative Critical Theory Konstantinos Kavoulakos; 12. Reification and the Progress of Technology Andrew Feenberg; 13. Lukacs and the Revival of Critical Theory: Reconsidering the Ontologie Michael J. Thompson; Bibliography; Index.

[Readers will] profit from the considerable number of strong essays that make their way into the volume.

Michael J. Thompson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at William Paterson University, USA. He is the author of The Politics of Inequality (Columbia University Press, 2007) and editor of Fleeing the City: Studies in the Culture and Politics of Antiurbanism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

• Part I: Lukacs' Philosophical Legacy; 1. Lukacs's and the Idealist Legacy Stephen Eric Bronner; 2. Lukacs and Marx After Marxism Tom Rockmore; 3. Rethinking Reification Timothy Hall; 4. Chvostismus und Dialektik: Lukacs' Reply to His Critics Michael Lowy; Part II: Extending Aesthetic Theory; 5. A Post-Adornian Aesthetics Peter Uwe Hohendahl; 6. The Development of the Novel Werner Jung; 7. The Fight for Freedom of the Arts: Lukacs on Dante and Goethe Janos Keleman; 8. A Hegelian-Marxist Philosophy of Political Imagination Norman Fischer; Part III: Politics, Society and Critical Theory; 9. Lukacs' Concept of Time Nichole Shippen; 10. Lukacs' Ambivalent Jurisprudence Katie Terezakis; 11. Back to History? Lukacs and the Antimonies of Communicative Critical Theory Konstantinos Kavoulakos; 12. Reification and the Progress of Technology Andrew Feenberg; 13. Lukacs and the Revival of Critical Theory: Reconsidering the Ontologie Michael J. Thompson; Bibliography; Index.

[Readers will] profit from the considerable number of strong essays that make their way into the volume.

Michael J. Thompson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at William Paterson University, USA. He is the author of The Politics of Inequality (Columbia University Press, 2007) and editor of Fleeing the City: Studies in the Culture and Politics of Antiurbanism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

• Part I: Lukacs' Philosophical Legacy; 1. Lukacs's and the Idealist Legacy Stephen Eric Bronner; 2. Lukacs and Marx After Marxism Tom Rockmore; 3. Rethinking Reification Timothy Hall; 4. Chvostismus und Dialektik: Lukacs' Reply to His Critics Michael Lowy; Part II: Extending Aesthetic Theory; 5. A Post-Adornian Aesthetics Peter Uwe Hohendahl; 6. The Development of the Novel Werner Jung; 7. The Fight for Freedom of the Arts: Lukacs on Dante and Goethe Janos Keleman; 8. A Hegelian-Marxist Philosophy of Political Imagination Norman Fischer; Part III: Politics, Society and Critical Theory; 9. Lukacs' Concept of Time Nichole Shippen; 10. Lukacs' Ambivalent Jurisprudence Katie Terezakis; 11. Back to History? Lukacs and the Antimonies of Communicative Critical Theory Konstantinos Kavoulakos; 12. Reification and the Progress of Technology Andrew Feenberg; 13. Lukacs and the Revival of Critical Theory: Reconsidering the Ontologie Michael J. Thompson; Bibliography; Index.

[Readers will] profit from the considerable number of strong essays that make their way into the volume.