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Happy Birthday Lukács and Lacan

Georg Lukács was born on April 13, 1885 and Jacques Lacan was born April 13, 1901 - celebrate with 30% off titles by and about them both!

11 April 2025

Happy Birthday Lukács and Lacan

Lukács 

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Lacan

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  • Lenin

    Lenin

    by Georg Lukács

    Translated by Nicholas Jacobs

    Out of the chaos following Lenin’s death and the mounting fury against Lukács and his freshly penned History and Class Consciousness (1923), this book bears an assessment of Lenin as “the only theo...
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  • Tactics and Ethics, 1919–1929

    Tactics and Ethics, 1919–1929

    by Georg Lukács

    Edited by Rodney Livingstone

    Translated by Michael McColgan

    Tactics and Ethics collects Georg Lukács’s articles from the most politically active time of his life, a period encompassing his stint as deputy commissar of education in the Hungarian Soviet Rep...
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  • A Defence of History and Class Consciousness

    A Defence of History and Class Consciousness

    by Georg Lukács

    Afterword by Slavoj Žižek

    Introduction by John Rees

    Translated by Esther Leslie

    In the mid 1920s Lukács wrote a sustained and passionate response to Stalin’s onslaught on his earlier seminal work History and Class Consciousness. Unpublished at the time, Lukács himself thought ...
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  • Record of a Life

    Record of a Life

    by Georg Lukács

    Edited by István Eörsi

    Translated by Rodney Livingstone

    This revealing autobiography of the Hungarian Marxist philosopher Georg Lukács is centered on a series of interviews that he gave in 1969 and 1971, shortly before his death on 4 June 1971.Stimulate...
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  • History and Class Consciousness

    History and Class Consciousness

    by Georg Lukács

    Preface by Michael Löwy

    Translated by Rodney Livingstone

    History and Class Consciousness was the most important of Georg Lukács’s early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923. The subject of high praise and passionate criticism, it had a majo...
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  • Lives on the Left

    Lives on the Left

    Contributions by Giovanni Arrighi, Akira Asada, Luciana Castellina, Noam Chomsky, Lucio Colletti, K. Damodaran, Adolfo Gilly, David Harvey, Wang Hui, Hedda Korsch, Georg Lukács, Ernest Mandel, Jiri Pelikan, Jean-Paul Sartre, João Pedro Stédile and Dorothy Thompson

    Edited by Francis Mulhern

    The extended critical interview is especially flexible as a form, by turns tenacious and glancing, elliptical or sustained, combining argument and counter-argument, reflection, history and memoir w...
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  • Georg Lukàcs

    Georg Lukàcs

    by Michael Löwy

    Translated by Patrick Camiller

    The philosophical and political development that converted Georg Lukács from a distinguished representative of Central European aesthetic vitalism into a major Marxist theorist and Communist milita...
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  • Lacan

    Lacan

    by Élisabeth Roudinesco

    Translated by Gregory Elliott

    Jacques Lacan continues to be subject to the most extravagant interpretations. Angelic to some, he is demonic to others. To recall Lacan's career, now that the heroic age of psychoanalysis is ove...
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  • Lacan in Contexts

    Lacan in Contexts

    by David Macey

    In the most comprehensive study of Jacques Lacan yet to be published in English, David Macey challenges many of the assumptions that have come to surround Lacan’s work. He shows that key elements o...
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  • Lacan

    Lacan

    Contributions by Alain Badiou, Bruno Bosteels, Miran Božovic, Lorenzo Chiesa, Joan Copjec, Mladen Dolar, Timothy C. Huson, Fredric Jameson, Adrian Johnston, Sigi Jöttkandt, Sylvia Ons, Robert Pfaller and Alenka Zupancic

    Edited by Slavoj Žižek

    Jacques Lacan is the foremost psychoanalytic theorist after Freud. Revolutionising the study of social relations, his work has been a major influence on political theory, philosophy, literature and...
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  • The Capitalist Unconscious

    The Capitalist Unconscious

    by Samo Tomšic

    Despite a resurgence of interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis, particularly in terms of the light it casts on capitalist ideology—as witnessed by the work of Slavoj Žižek—there remain remarkably fe...
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  • Read My Desire

    Read My Desire

    by Joan Copjec

    In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern disciplines—psychoanalysis and histor...
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  • Ethics of the Real

    Ethics of the Real

    by Alenka Zupancic

    The idea of Kantian ethics is both simple and revolutionary: it proposes a moral law independent of any notion of a pre-established Good or any ‘human inclination’ such as love, sympathy or fear. I...
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  • In the Tracks of Historical Materialism

    In the Tracks of Historical Materialism

    by Perry Anderson

    What have been the major changes in the intellectual landscape of the left since the mid seventies? Have they on balance represented an emancipation or a retreat for socialist culture as a whole? I...
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