Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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)