Confronting Reification: Revitalizing Georg Lukács's Thought in Late Capitalism

Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction 1Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker
Part 1: Interpreting Reification: the Meaning and Origins of a Concept
	1 Lukács’s Theory of Reification: an Introduction • Andrew Feenberg
	2 Categorial Forms as Intelligibility of Social Objects: Reification and Objectivity in Lukács • Christian Lotz
	3 Reification in History and Class Consciousness • Csaba Olay
Part 2: Philosophical Interventions in the Concept of Reification: Applications, Critiques, and Connections
	4 Reification, Values and Norms: toward a Critical Theory ofConsciousness 67Michael J. Thompson
	5 Reification and the Mechanistic World-Picture: Lukács and Grossmann on Mechanistic Philosophy • Sean Winkler
	6 “The Nature of Humanity, or Rather the Nature of Things” – Reification in the Works of Georg Lukács and Walter Benjamin • Andraž Jež
	7 Lukács on Reification and Epistemic Constructivism • Tom Rockmore
Part 3: Reification and the Idea of Socialism: Lukács’s Contributions to the Renewal of Radical Politics and Their Limitations
	8 The Project of Renewing the Idea of Socialism and the Theory of Reification • Rüdiger Dannemann
	9 Georg Lukács’s Archimedean Socialism • Joseph Grim Feinberg
	10 Lukács’s Idea of Communism and Its Blind Spot: Money • Frank Engster
Part 4: Social and Political Interventions in the Idea of Reification: Gender, Race, Neoliberalism, and Populism
	11 The Revolutionary Subject in Lukács and Feminist Standpoint Theory: Dilaceration and Emancipatory Interest • Mariana Teixeira
	12 Linking Racism and Reification in the Thought of Georg Lukács • Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker
	13 Reification and Neoliberalism: Is There an Alternative? • Tivadar Vervoort
	14 Populism and the Logic of Commodity Fetishism: Lukács’s Theory of Reification and Authoritarian Leaders • Richard Westerman
Index