Abstract

At a conference dedicated to the memory of George Lichtheim, it is a risky undertaking indeed to attempt an analysis of the relationship between Georg Lukács and the Frankfurt School. For in so doing, one must traverse much of the same ground that Lichtheim crossed with such agility in From Marx to Hegel and elsewhere. Rather than trying to match the integrative sweep and synthetic power which characterize the essays in that collection, as so much of Lichtheim's work, I have set myself the more modest task of focusing on one facet of that relationship which seems central to an understanding of the development of Marxist Humanism in this century.