The Destruction of Reason

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The Destruction of Reason is a major philosophical work by György Lukács that offers a Marxist critique of irrationalist currents in modern Western philosophy and their relation to fascism.

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instanceOf book
philosophical work
aimsTo defend rationalism from a Marxist standpoint
trace the ideological roots of fascism in bourgeois philosophy
author György Lukács
countryOfOrigin Hungary
criticizes existentialism
fascist ideology
irrationalism in modern philosophy
neo-Kantianism
phenomenology
positivism
vitalism
genre Marxist philosophy
history of philosophy
political philosophy
hasPart analysis of Friedrich Nietzsche
analysis of German idealism
analysis of Martin Heidegger
analysis of Oswald Spengler
analysis of Søren Kierkegaard
analysis of irrationalist trends in 19th-century philosophy
analysis of irrationalist trends in 20th-century philosophy
hasTranslation English translation
influencedBy Friedrich Engels
G. W. F. Hegel
surface form: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Karl Marx
Leninist theory
mainSubject Marxist critique
Western philosophy
fascism
irrationalism
notableIdea critique of bourgeois philosophy as ideologically regressive
systematic linkage of irrationalist philosophy to fascist politics
originalLanguage German
originalTitle The Destruction of Reason self-linksurface differs
surface form: Die Zerstörung der Vernunft
philosophicalPerspective orthodox Marxist
philosophicalTradition Marxism
Western Marxism
positionOnFascism interprets fascism as culmination of bourgeois irrationalism
positionOnReason defends Enlightenment rationality
publicationDate 1954
publisher Akademie-Verlag
subjectOf debates in Marxist philosophy
scholarly criticism for its polemical style
theoreticalFramework dialectical materialism
historical materialism
title The Destruction of Reason self-link

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György Lukács notableWork The Destruction of Reason
The Young Hegel relatedWork The Destruction of Reason
The Destruction of Reason title The Destruction of Reason self-link
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this entity surface form: Die Zerstörung der Vernunft