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Development of Lukacs’ Realism</a></b><br>
Silvia Federici<br>
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<i>An unpublished early text that shows Silvia Federici working
through questions of realism, art, and aesthetics.</i><br>
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Written in 1980 and never published, <i>The Development of
Lukács’ Realism</i> reveals a lesser known early chapter in the
intellectual trajectory of Silvia Federici. Best known for her
groundbreaking feminist analyses of capitalism, reproduction, and
social struggle, Federici appears here as a young philosopher
engaging deeply with the traditions of Marxism, German idealism,
and aesthetic theory. Taking György Lukács as her central figure,
Federici challenges the standard narrative that divides his work
into sharply opposed phases: early idealism, revolutionary
Marxism, and later aesthetic realism. Against this account, she
argues for a striking continuity across Lukács’ career, tracing
how his commitment to realism persists through shifting
philosophical vocabularies and political commitments. What emerges
is a rigorous and unsparing critique of Lukács’ realism as an
unresolved attempt to reconcile absolute values, historical
meaning, and the role of consciousness within modern capitalist
society.<br>
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Moving from early literary essays to <i>History and Class
Consciousness</i> and the late aesthetic writings, Federici
situates Lukács within the broader crisis of bourgeois culture in
the twentieth century: the fragmentation of life, the loss of
totality, and the search for meaning in art, philosophy, and
revolution. Her analysis foregrounds the metaphysical tensions
that haunt Lukács’ thought – between subjectivity and objectivity,
form and content, ethics and history – while raising broader
questions about Marxist philosophy, aesthetics, and the legacy of
Western Marxism itself. At once a study of Lukács and a diagnosis
of a wider intellectual tradition, <i>The Development of Lukács’
Realism</i> invites readers to reconsider the foundations of
Marxist aesthetics and the unresolved contradictions that continue
to shape critical theory today.<br>
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<b>Bio:</b> Silvia Federici is a feminist theorist, writer, and
activist whose work has been central to rethinking the
relationship between capitalism, gender, and social reproduction.
Born in Italy and educated in philosophy, she has taught for many
years in the United States and has been involved in feminist,
anti-capitalist, and international movements since the 1970s,
including the Wages for Housework campaign. She is the author of <i>Caliban
and the Witch</i>, <i>Revolution at Point Zero</i>, <i>Reenchanting
the World</i>, and <i>Beyond the Periphery of the Skin</i>,
among other works, in which she examines the historical
foundations of capitalist accumulation, the politics of
reproduction, and the ongoing struggles over bodies, labor, and
the commons.<br>
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Release to the book trade 13 April 2027<br>
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