Modality and Actuality: Lukács’s Criticism of Hegel in History and Class Consciousness

Abstract

The present article tries to show the originality of Lukács’s theory of Actuality (Wirklichkeit) by comparing it with the same notion in Hegel’s Logic. It results that Lukács’s interpretation of Marxism and the Russian Revolution depends on a clear and independent theoretical position with regard to Hegel and his Idealistic theory of Modality. Particular importance is given to the new conception of the Dialectical interplay between the notions of Objective Possibility and Historical Necessity.

Keywords

• lukács
• hegel
• actuality
• modality
• dialectics
• objective possibility
• historical necessity
• marxism
• class-cosnsciousness, revolution