Georg Lukács
Georg Lukacs (1885-1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic in the tradition of Western Marxism. Born in Budapest, he contributed the ideas of reification and class consciousness to Marxist philosophy and theory, and his literary criticism was influential in thinking about realism and about the novel as a literary genre. He exercised a profound influence on a wide variety of thinkers, among them Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno, and Guy Debord, and is reputed to have served as the model for the character of Naphathta, the revolutionary priest, in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. He served briefly as Hungary's Minister of Culture following the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
