Language:
German
Year of publication:
2012
Titel der Quelle:
Lukács; Jahrbuch der Internationalen Georg-Lukács-Gesellschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
12-13 (2012-2013) 313-338
Keywords:
Lukács, György,
;
Antisemitism Philosophy
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
Abstract:
Discusses why Lukács attributed little importance to antisemitism and the Shoah in his analyses of German fascism. His basic view, which he expressed in 1933 and which coincided with that of the Kommunist Internationale, was that Nazism formed the current stage of capitalist dominion and antisemitism was not central to it. In an unpublished text from 1941-42, he acknowledged that racism and antisemitism were part of Nazi philosophy of history, since it viewed history as a struggle between races. However, later in the same text, he revises and relativizes his own statements, and does not integrate them in "Die Zerstörung der Vernunft", published in 1954. There Lukács asserts that the significance of racial theories lies in denying the equality of men, but argues that Nazism only used racism as an excuse to preserve backward German capitalism. Maier contends that Lukács's misjudgements cannot be explained by obedience to Soviet party directives, but must be deduced from the philosophical and theoritical premises of his thinking, in particular from their immunity to experience.
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