Histomat: Adventures in Historical Materialism

'Historical materialism is the theory of the proletarian revolution.' Georg Lukács

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Lukács Symposium

Symposium on Georg Lukács's ''Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat'

2–6pm, Saturday February 6, 2010, at the London Knowledge Lab, 23-29
Emerald Street, London WC1

Speakers:
Gordon Finlayson
Tim Hall
Michalis Skomvoulis

Gordon Finlayson is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of
Sussex and is the author of many books and articles on the Frankfurt
School.

Tim Hall is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of East
London. His article ‘Reification, Materialism & Praxis: Adorno’s
critique of Lukács’ is forthcoming in Telos (2010) and he is the co-
editor of The Fundamental Dissonance of Existence: New Essays on the
Social, Political and Aesthetic Theory of Georg Lukács
(New York,
Continuum: 2010)

Michalis Skomvoulis is a PhD student at the University of Paris 1:
Panthéon-Sorbonne and has written extensively on Lukacs.

Attendance is free and open to all. To register e-mail Meade
McCloughan: m.mccloughan@ucl.ac.uk

Directions and map: Tube stations:
Holborn and Russell Square.

Marx and Philosophy Society: http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/

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