On Georg Lukάcs’ Idea of Totality in His Period of Pre-Marxism

Abstract

Obviously, Lukάcs as a Western Marxist focused on the issues about politics, economics, and society, whereas he almost concerned with the issues about culture, ethics, and philosophy in his pre-Marxism. Influenced by Wilhelm Dilthey, Georg Simmel, and Max Weber, Lukάcs claimed that modern civilization of capitalism already became a kind of "cultural tragedy", and his Soul and Form was "permeated by the