Michael J. Thompson is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at William Paterson University (USA). He received a BA in Languages and Literature from Rutgers College, studied sociology and philosophy at Humboldt Universität in Berlin, and earned his Ph.D. in Political Science at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His books include The Politics of Inequality (Columbia, 2017), The Domestication of Critical Theory (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016), The Specter of Babel: A Reconstruction of Political Judgment (SUNY Press, 2019) as well as the forthcoming, Twilight of the Self: The Eclipse of Autonomy in Modern Society (Stanford).

Contributors

Introduction

Part 1: Fundamental Aspects of Lukács ' Ontology of Social Being

1

Ontology and Labor in the Lukács ' Late Thought

Antonino Infranca and Miguel Vedda

2

Lukács and the Reshaping of Marxism: From Hartmann 's to Lukács ' Ontology

Endre Kiss

3

Lukács ' Ontology of Social Being and the Material Basis of Intentionality

Matthew J. Smetona

Part 2: Hegelian-Marxist Dimensions of Lukács ' Social Ontology

4

György Lukács ' Ontological Interpretation of Marx 's Labor Theory of Value

Murillo van der Laan

5

The Ontology of Alienation: Lukács ' Normative Theory of History

Andreas Giesbert

6

Lukács ' Late Appropriation of Hegel 's Philosophy: The Ontology of Materialist Dialectics and the Complexities of Labor as Teleological Positing

Michalis Skomvoulis

Part 3: Lukács ' Social Ontology and Contemporary Philosophy

7

On the "Constitution of Human Society": Lukács ' versus Searle 's Social Ontology

Claudius Vellay

8

Why Still Reification? Toward a Critical Social Ontology

Thomas Telios

9

Unlikely Affinities: J.L. Borges, Kuhn, Lakatos and Ontological Critique

Mario Duayer

10

The Politics of Nature, Left and Right: Comparing the Ontologies of Georg Lukács and Bruno Latour

Christoph Henning

Part 4: Toward a Critical Social Ontology

11

From Critical Theory to Critical Ontology: Back to Lukács!

Michael Morris

12

Normativity and Totality: Lukács ' Contribution to a Critical Social Ontology

Titus Stahl

13

Lukács and the Problem of Knowledge: Critical Ontology as Social Theory

Reha Kadakal

14

Marx, Lukács and the Groundwork for Critical Social Ontology

Michael J. Thompson

Index