Phenomenology and Ontology in the Lukácsian Concept of Labor

Manuel Alejandro Bonilla Bonilla

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Phenomenology and Ontology in the Lukácsian Concept of Labor

Manuel Alejandro Bonilla Bonilla

Published in International Journal of Philosophy (Volume 7, Issue 2)

Received: 22 February 2019 Accepted: 8 April 2019 Published: 29 April 2019

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This article attempts to reassess the evaluation of one of the most crucial concepts in the philosophy of the hungarian philosopher Georgy Lukács, namely, the concept of labor. It discusses how, as a result of his own philosophical evolution, Lukács developed two different approaches in his investigation about the fundamental categories that comprise social reality. One approach -developed in his young years- discusses the social categories in relation with the historical development of the subjective consciousness, in other words, it deals with the relationship between ‘historical world’ and ‘human consciousness’. The philosophical evolution of the young Lukács made him understand that relationship according to the theoretical framework that Hegel developed in the Phenomenology of the Spirit. The second approach -developed in the marxist period of Lukács- assumes the social categories as ‘ontological concepts’ that explain the fundamental socio-economical elements of the meta-categorial system that is the human world. In particular, the article analyzes such duality of approaches in regards of the social category of labor. It shows how the interaction between these two approaches influences the discussion of the category of labor in the context of advanced capitalism, and how it affects the lukácsian understanding of social categories in general.

Published in	International Journal of Philosophy (Volume 7, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijp.20190702.12
Page(s)	55-61
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Labor, Ontology, Phenomenology, Aesthetics, Ethics

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