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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

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The Destruction of Reason

by Georg Lukács

Introduction by Enzo Traverso

Translated by Peter Palmer

A classic of Western Marxism, The Destruction of Reason is Georg Lukács's trenchant criticism of German philosophy after Marx and the role it played in the rise of National Socialism. Originally pu...

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...

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...

Aesthetics and Politics

by Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht and Georg Lukács

Afterword by Fredric Jameson

No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics...

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 Unpublished at the time, Lukács himself thought ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

My Teaching

by Jacques Lacan

Preface by Jacques-Alain Miller

Translated by David Macey

Bringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented to the public by Lacan at the height of his career, and prefaced by Jacques-Alain Miller, My Teaching is a clear, concise introduct...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock)

Contributions by Pascal Bonitzer, Miran Božovic, Michel Chion, Mladen Dolar, Fredric Jameson, Stojan Pelko, Renata Salecl and Alenka Zupancic

Edited by Slavoj Žižek

The contributors bring to bear an unrivaled enthusiasm and theoretical sweep on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, analyzing movies such as Rear Window and Psycho. Starting from the premise that ‘everyth...

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Happy Birthday Lukács and Lacan

Lukács

Lacan

The Destruction of Reason

Lenin

Tactics and Ethics, 1919–1929

Aesthetics and Politics

A Defence of History and Class Consciousness

Record of a Life

History and Class Consciousness

Lives on the Left

Georg Lukàcs

My Teaching

Lacan

Lacan in Contexts

Lacan

The Capitalist Unconscious

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock)

Read My Desire

Ethics of the Real

In the Tracks of Historical Materialism