Marxism and Subjectivity Remarks on Georg Lukacs and Existential Phenomenology

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Sartre has written that “the theory of knowledge continues to be the weak point in Marxism”. The implications of this statement go beyond merely epistomological questions, and indeed encompass an interrogation of the whole philosophical basis of Marxism. The problem may roughly be stated as involving serious doubts about the adequacy of the Marxian (and thus, implicitly, the Hegelian) concept of subjectivity. We wish to suggest in what follows that, if the Marxian enterprise is to be firmly secured philosophically there must be a new attention not merely to the status of the subject in Marxism, but also a new attention to the ontological status of the individual (as a social being).

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