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).

“The concluding essay by the editor, Michael J. Thompson, is lucid and persuasive in praising the late Lukács’ contribution and fidelity to Marx’s ontology”. Sean Sheehan, in Marx & Philosophy Review of books, 2020.

• ContributorsIntroductionPart 1: Fundamental Aspects of Lukács’ Ontology of Social Being1 Ontology and Labor in the Lukács’ Late ThoughtAntonino Infranca and Miguel Vedda2 Lukács and the Reshaping of Marxism: From Hartmann’s to Lukács’OntologyEndre Kiss3 Lukács’ Ontology of Social Being and the Material Basis of IntentionalityMatthew J. SmetonaPart 2: Hegelian-Marxist Dimensions of Lukács’ Social Ontology4 György Lukács’ Ontological Interpretation of Marx’s Labor Theory of ValueMurillo van der Laan5 The Ontology of Alienation: Lukács’ Normative Theory of HistoryAndreas Giesbert6 Lukács’ Late Appropriation of Hegel’s Philosophy: The Ontology of Materialist Dialectics and the Complexities of Labor as Teleological PositingMichalis SkomvoulisPart 3: Lukács’ Social Ontology and Contemporary Philosophy7 On the “Constitution of Human Society”: Lukács’ versus Searle’s Social OntologyClaudius Vellay8 Why Still Reification? Toward a Critical Social OntologyThomas Telios9 Unlikely Affinities: J.L. Borges, Kuhn, Lakatos and Ontological CritiqueMario Duayer10 The Politics of Nature, Left and Right: Comparing the Ontologies of Georg Lukács and Bruno LatourChristoph HenningPart 4: Toward a Critical Social Ontology11 From Critical Theory to Critical Ontology: Back to Lukács!Michael Morris12 Normativity and Totality: Lukács’ Contribution to a Critical Social OntologyTitus Stahl13 Lukács and the Problem of Knowledge: Critical Ontology as Social TheoryReha Kadakal14 Marx, Lukács and the Groundwork for Critical Social OntologyMichael J. ThompsonIndex

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).

“The concluding essay by the editor, Michael J. Thompson, is lucid and persuasive in praising the late Lukács’ contribution and fidelity to Marx’s ontology”. Sean Sheehan, in Marx & Philosophy Review of books, 2020.

• ContributorsIntroductionPart 1: Fundamental Aspects of Lukács’ Ontology of Social Being1 Ontology and Labor in the Lukács’ Late ThoughtAntonino Infranca and Miguel Vedda2 Lukács and the Reshaping of Marxism: From Hartmann’s to Lukács’OntologyEndre Kiss3 Lukács’ Ontology of Social Being and the Material Basis of IntentionalityMatthew J. SmetonaPart 2: Hegelian-Marxist Dimensions of Lukács’ Social Ontology4 György Lukács’ Ontological Interpretation of Marx’s Labor Theory of ValueMurillo van der Laan5 The Ontology of Alienation: Lukács’ Normative Theory of HistoryAndreas Giesbert6 Lukács’ Late Appropriation of Hegel’s Philosophy: The Ontology of Materialist Dialectics and the Complexities of Labor as Teleological PositingMichalis SkomvoulisPart 3: Lukács’ Social Ontology and Contemporary Philosophy7 On the “Constitution of Human Society”: Lukács’ versus Searle’s Social OntologyClaudius Vellay8 Why Still Reification? Toward a Critical Social OntologyThomas Telios9 Unlikely Affinities: J.L. Borges, Kuhn, Lakatos and Ontological CritiqueMario Duayer10 The Politics of Nature, Left and Right: Comparing the Ontologies of Georg Lukács and Bruno LatourChristoph HenningPart 4: Toward a Critical Social Ontology11 From Critical Theory to Critical Ontology: Back to Lukács!Michael Morris12 Normativity and Totality: Lukács’ Contribution to a Critical Social OntologyTitus Stahl13 Lukács and the Problem of Knowledge: Critical Ontology as Social TheoryReha Kadakal14 Marx, Lukács and the Groundwork for Critical Social OntologyMichael J. ThompsonIndex

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).

“The concluding essay by the editor, Michael J. Thompson, is lucid and persuasive in praising the late Lukács’ contribution and fidelity to Marx’s ontology”. Sean Sheehan, in Marx & Philosophy Review of books, 2020.

• ContributorsIntroductionPart 1: Fundamental Aspects of Lukács’ Ontology of Social Being1 Ontology and Labor in the Lukács’ Late ThoughtAntonino Infranca and Miguel Vedda2 Lukács and the Reshaping of Marxism: From Hartmann’s to Lukács’OntologyEndre Kiss3 Lukács’ Ontology of Social Being and the Material Basis of IntentionalityMatthew J. SmetonaPart 2: Hegelian-Marxist Dimensions of Lukács’ Social Ontology4 György Lukács’ Ontological Interpretation of Marx’s Labor Theory of ValueMurillo van der Laan5 The Ontology of Alienation: Lukács’ Normative Theory of HistoryAndreas Giesbert6 Lukács’ Late Appropriation of Hegel’s Philosophy: The Ontology of Materialist Dialectics and the Complexities of Labor as Teleological PositingMichalis SkomvoulisPart 3: Lukács’ Social Ontology and Contemporary Philosophy7 On the “Constitution of Human Society”: Lukács’ versus Searle’s Social OntologyClaudius Vellay8 Why Still Reification? Toward a Critical Social OntologyThomas Telios9 Unlikely Affinities: J.L. Borges, Kuhn, Lakatos and Ontological CritiqueMario Duayer10 The Politics of Nature, Left and Right: Comparing the Ontologies of Georg Lukács and Bruno LatourChristoph HenningPart 4: Toward a Critical Social Ontology11 From Critical Theory to Critical Ontology: Back to Lukács!Michael Morris12 Normativity and Totality: Lukács’ Contribution to a Critical Social OntologyTitus Stahl13 Lukács and the Problem of Knowledge: Critical Ontology as Social TheoryReha Kadakal14 Marx, Lukács and the Groundwork for Critical Social OntologyMichael J. ThompsonIndex