János Kelemen is Professor of Philosophy at the University ELTE Budapest, Hungary. He is also a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and a former director of the Hungarian Academy in Rome, Italy. He has published numerous books and essays on philosophical problems, Italian literary history, and individual authors.

"Georg Lukacs is one of the highly controversial towering thinkers of the 20th century. Janos Kelemen's book presents a deep insight into the main theoretical aspects of Lukacs's work . It is also a significant contribution to the still-missing assessment of the philosophical debates triggered by the political left within post-metaphysical philosophy." - Agnes Heller Professor Emeritus, The New School for Social Research, USA

• I. 'To Supervise the Existence of Reason' 1. Introdcution: Language, Science, Reason 2. Lukács's Ideas on Language 3. Lukács's Conception of Science 4. Lukács's Rationalism: In Defence of the Destruction of Reason II. Problems of Literary History and Aesthetics 5. Art's Struggle for Freedom: Lukács the Literary Historian 6. Lukács and Fülep: Two Hungarian Critics of Benedetto Croce 7. Lukács and the Art of Film: On a Chapter of the Specificity of the Aesthetic