Recovering the Later Georg Lukacs: A Study on the Unity of His Thought

A book review of Matthew J. Smetona's Recovering the Later Georg Luk & aacute;cs: A Study on the Unity of His Thought, which constitutes an important contribution to Luk & aacute;cs scholarship and to the debate on the concept of reification and its practical viability. Smetona embarks on a granular survey of Luk & aacute;cs's so-called later writings, offering a robust and widely useful elucidation of his critical philosophy, despite neglecting how the various conceptual reiterations made by Luk & aacute;cs himself in the critique of reification may strengthen or enhance its underlying philosophical argument.