On Reification by Georg Lukacs Summary?
On the Subjective Side, Reification Entails a Fragmentation of Human Experience, Leading to an Attitude of “Contemplation” Where One Passively Adapts to a...
On the subjective side, reification entails a fragmentation of human experience, leading to an attitude of “contemplation” where one passively adapts to a law-like system of social “second nature” and to an objectifying stance towards one's own mental states and capacities. Lukács calls this development “reification”.
What does Lukacs mean by reification?
In Marxism, reification (German: Verdinglichung, lit. transl. "making into a thing") is the process by which social relations are perceived as inherent attributes of the people involved in them, or attributes of some product of the relation, such as a traded commodity.
What is the key idea behind reification?
The key idea here is that reification is not epistemic in nature, but rather (social) onto- logical: it is re-organizes the very reality of the social world via this shaping of our consciousness and the norms that underwrite it and our practices.
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