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).

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• ContributorsIntroduction Part 1: Fundamental Aspects of Lukács ' Ontology of Social Being1Ontology and Labor in the Lukács ' Late ThoughtAntonino Infranca and Miguel Vedda2Lukács and the Reshaping of Marxism: From Hartmann 's to Lukács ' OntologyEndre Kiss3Lukács ' Ontology of Social Being and the Material Basis of IntentionalityMatthew J. Smetona Part 2: Hegelian-Marxist Dimensions of Lukács ' Social Ontology4György Lukács ' Ontological Interpretation of Marx 's Labor Theory of ValueMurillo van der Laan5The Ontology of Alienation: Lukács ' Normative Theory of HistoryAndreas Giesbert6Lukács ' Late Appropriation of Hegel 's Philosophy: The Ontology of Materialist Dialectics and the Complexities of Labor as Teleological PositingMichalis Skomvoulis Part 3: Lukács ' Social Ontology and Contemporary Philosophy7On the "Constitution of Human Society": Lukács ' versus Searle 's Social OntologyClaudius Vellay8Why Still Reification? Toward a Critical Social OntologyThomas Telios9Unlikely Affinities: J.L. Borges, Kuhn, Lakatos and Ontological CritiqueMario Duayer10The Politics of Nature, Left and Right: Comparing the Ontologies of Georg Lukács and Bruno LatourChristoph Henning Part 4: Toward a Critical Social Ontology11From Critical Theory to Critical Ontology: Back to Lukács!Michael Morris12Normativity and Totality: Lukács ' Contribution to a Critical Social OntologyTitus Stahl13Lukács and the Problem of Knowledge: Critical Ontology as Social TheoryReha Kadakal14Marx, Lukács and the Groundwork for Critical Social OntologyMichael J. Thompson Index

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).

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• ContributorsIntroduction Part 1: Fundamental Aspects of Lukács ' Ontology of Social Being1Ontology and Labor in the Lukács ' Late ThoughtAntonino Infranca and Miguel Vedda2Lukács and the Reshaping of Marxism: From Hartmann 's to Lukács ' OntologyEndre Kiss3Lukács ' Ontology of Social Being and the Material Basis of IntentionalityMatthew J. Smetona Part 2: Hegelian-Marxist Dimensions of Lukács ' Social Ontology4György Lukács ' Ontological Interpretation of Marx 's Labor Theory of ValueMurillo van der Laan5The Ontology of Alienation: Lukács ' Normative Theory of HistoryAndreas Giesbert6Lukács ' Late Appropriation of Hegel 's Philosophy: The Ontology of Materialist Dialectics and the Complexities of Labor as Teleological PositingMichalis Skomvoulis Part 3: Lukács ' Social Ontology and Contemporary Philosophy7On the "Constitution of Human Society": Lukács ' versus Searle 's Social OntologyClaudius Vellay8Why Still Reification? Toward a Critical Social OntologyThomas Telios9Unlikely Affinities: J.L. Borges, Kuhn, Lakatos and Ontological CritiqueMario Duayer10The Politics of Nature, Left and Right: Comparing the Ontologies of Georg Lukács and Bruno LatourChristoph Henning Part 4: Toward a Critical Social Ontology11From Critical Theory to Critical Ontology: Back to Lukács!Michael Morris12Normativity and Totality: Lukács ' Contribution to a Critical Social OntologyTitus Stahl13Lukács and the Problem of Knowledge: Critical Ontology as Social TheoryReha Kadakal14Marx, Lukács and the Groundwork for Critical Social OntologyMichael J. Thompson Index

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).

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• ContributorsIntroduction Part 1: Fundamental Aspects of Lukács ' Ontology of Social Being1Ontology and Labor in the Lukács ' Late ThoughtAntonino Infranca and Miguel Vedda2Lukács and the Reshaping of Marxism: From Hartmann 's to Lukács ' OntologyEndre Kiss3Lukács ' Ontology of Social Being and the Material Basis of IntentionalityMatthew J. Smetona Part 2: Hegelian-Marxist Dimensions of Lukács ' Social Ontology4György Lukács ' Ontological Interpretation of Marx 's Labor Theory of ValueMurillo van der Laan5The Ontology of Alienation: Lukács ' Normative Theory of HistoryAndreas Giesbert6Lukács ' Late Appropriation of Hegel 's Philosophy: The Ontology of Materialist Dialectics and the Complexities of Labor as Teleological PositingMichalis Skomvoulis Part 3: Lukács ' Social Ontology and Contemporary Philosophy7On the "Constitution of Human Society": Lukács ' versus Searle 's Social OntologyClaudius Vellay8Why Still Reification? Toward a Critical Social OntologyThomas Telios9Unlikely Affinities: J.L. Borges, Kuhn, Lakatos and Ontological CritiqueMario Duayer10The Politics of Nature, Left and Right: Comparing the Ontologies of Georg Lukács and Bruno LatourChristoph Henning Part 4: Toward a Critical Social Ontology11From Critical Theory to Critical Ontology: Back to Lukács!Michael Morris12Normativity and Totality: Lukács ' Contribution to a Critical Social OntologyTitus Stahl13Lukács and the Problem of Knowledge: Critical Ontology as Social TheoryReha Kadakal14Marx, Lukács and the Groundwork for Critical Social OntologyMichael J. Thompson Index