9781642593426. Pre-owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 620. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 620 p. Historical Materialism. Georg Luk�cs 's philosophy of praxis, penned between 1918 and 1928, remains a revolutionary and apocryphal presence within Marxism. His History and Class Consciousness has inspired a century of rapture and reprobation, perhaps, as Gillian Rose suggested, because of its 'invitation to hermeneutic anarchy '. In Luk�cs: Praxis and the Absolute, Daniel Andr�s L�pez radicalises Luk�cs 's famous return to Hegel by reassembling his 1920s philosophy as a conceptual-historical totality. This speculative reading defends Luk�cs while proposing an unprecedented, immanent critique. While Luk�cs 's concept of praxis approaches the shape of Hegel 's Absolute, it tragically fails to bear its weight. However, as L�pez argues, Luk�cs 's failure was productive: it raises crucial political, methodological and philosophical questions for Marxism, offering to redeem a lost century.