I. 'To Supervise the Existence of Reason' 1. Introdcution: Language, Science, Reason 2. Lukács's Ideas on Language 3. Lukács's Conception of Science 4. Lukács's Rationalism: In Defence of the Destruction of Reason II. Problems of Literary History and Aesthetics 5. Art's Struggle for Freedom: Lukács the Literary Historian 6. Lukács and Fülep: Two Hungarian Critics of Benedetto Croce 7. Lukács and the Art of Film: On a Chapter of the Specificity of the Aesthetic

The Rationalism of Georg Lukács is a collection of essays and engaging scholarship which uncovers new dimensions of the philosopher's work. The relevance of Lukacs's ideas should be seen in the light of a sharp decline in critical thought as well the continued need to rehabilitate a thinker that was representative of a rational radical perspective.