Georg Lukács’s The Destruction of Reason:
Selected Bibliography

Compiled by Ralph Dumain

Lukács, Georg. The Destruction of Reason, translated by Peter Palmer. London: The Merlin Press, 1980.

Nietzsche as Founder of Irrationalism in the Imperialist Period, Chapter III, pp. 309-399

Lukács' Critique of Carl Schmitt, pp. 652-666

Lukács on Wittgenstein, pp. 782-784

About The Destruction of Reason

Adorno, Theodor. “Reconciliation under Duress,” translated by Rodney Livingstone, in Aesthetics and Politics, by Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno; afterword by Fredric Jameson; Ronald Taylor, translation editor (London: NLB, 1977), pp. 151-176. See p. 152.

Alternate translation: Adorno, Theodor W. “Extorted Reconciliation: On Georg Lukács’ Realism in Our Time” (1958), in Notes to Literature; Volume One, edited by Rolf Tiedemann, translated by Shierry Weber Nicholsen (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991), pp. 216-240.

Aronowitz, Stanley. “Georg Lukács’ Destruction of Reason,” in Georg Lukács Reconsidered: Critical Essays in Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics; edited by Michael J. Thompson (London; New York: Continuum, 2011), pp. 50-64.

Deutscher, Isaac. “Georg Lukács and Critical Realism” (1966) in Marxism in Our Time, edited by Tamara Deutscher (Berkeley, CA: Ramparts Press, 1971), pp. 283-93. See also quote:

Isaac Deutscher on Lukács, rationalism, irrationalism, & Nazism

Donougho, Martin. “Irrationalism, Lukâcs and the Marxist View of Reason,” The Review of Metaphysics, Sept. 1995.

Hodges, H. A. “Lukács on Irrationalism,” in Georg Lukács: Lukács The Man, His Work and His Ideas, edited by G. H. R. Parkinson (New York: Random House, 1970), pp. 86-108.

Kelemen, János. “In Defense of The Destruction of Reason,” Logos, vol. 7, no. 1, winter 2008.

Lebovic, Nitzan. Dionysian Politics and The Discourse of "Rausch", Working Papers, UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, UCLA International Institute, UC Los Angeles, 12-20-2004.

Lichtheim, George. George Lukács. (New York: Viking Press, 1970), Chapter VII, ‘An End to Reason?’, pp. 113-124. (Modern Masters)

Parkinson, G. H. R. Georg Lukács (London; Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977), pp. 65-82.

Pourgouris, Marinos C. “Nietzsche contra Lukács,” Nietzsche-Studien, 2002, pp. 241–252.

Rehmann, Jan. “Re-Reading Nietzsche with Domenico Losurdo’s Intellectual Biography” [review article], Historical Materialism 15 (2007) 1–60.

Rockmore, Tom. Irrationalism: Lukács and the Marxist View of Reason (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992), pp. 192-213.

Varga, Csaba. The Place of Law in Lukács’ World Concept; introduction and chapters 1, 2 translated by Judit Petrányi; chapters 3, 4, 5, 6 and appendix by Sándor Eszenyi; translation revised by Jeremy Payne]. Rev. and enlarged ed. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1985. See pp. 59-65: Ruthlessness and its Trap in The Destruction of Reason.

Georg Lukács on Irrationalism and Nazism: The Unity of Cynicism and Credulity

Georg Lukács on Relativism, Feuerbach, Nietzsche & Spengler

Lukács on Wittgenstein

“On the Responsibility of Intellectuals” (Excerpt)
by Georg Lukács

Karinthy mocks Lukács

Arpad Kadarkay on Lukács on Madách

Lukács in Moscow: RAPP, Mór Jókai, Socialist Realism

"Existentialism" by Georg Lukács

The Question of Educational Work by Georg Lukács

“On The Fiftieth Anniversary of Feuerbach’s Death” by Georg Lukács

“The Two Epochs of Bourgeois Materialism: On Moleschott’s Centenary” by Georg Lukács

“The History of Hegel’s Youth: Review of Wilhelm Dilthey’s collected writings, Vol. IV”
by Georg Lukács