Quote of the day
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
György Lukács
Born: April 13, 1885
Died: June 4, 1971 (aged 86)
Bio: György Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic. He was one of the founders of Western Marxism, an interpretive tradition that departed from the Marxist ideological orthodoxy of the USSR.
Known for:
- History and Class Consciousness (1968)
- The Destruction of Reason
- Soul and Form (1971)
- The meaning of contemporary realism (1962)