Lukács's Notion of "Concrete Totality" as Logos in the Age of Fragmentation. The Precariat as the Road to Knowledge
2018
Abstract
Logos in the shape of the thought of the whole is, besides other things, represented by Lukács's philosophy. This theoretical line has nearly vanished in contemporary social thought - witness a critical stance on the idea of the whole in post-Marxism.
I sketch Badiou's set criticism of the concept of the whole and conclude that his criticism involves a performative contradiction. I argue that Badiou's criticism does not hold for Lukács's concept of the whole.
With recapitulating Lukács's theory I highlight "imputed class consciousness" as a precondition for opening the perspective of the social whole.