György Lukács

György Lukács was a Hungarian philosopher and Marxist theorist who significantly influenced the understanding of historical materialism, which examines how material conditions and economic factors shape society and culture. He argued that class consciousness, the awareness of one's social class conditions, plays a vital role in social change. Lukács emphasized the importance of subjective experience and ideology in understanding history, bridging the gap between individual perspectives and social structures. His work explored how literature and culture reflect and reinforce social realities, highlighting the interplay between human agency and the material conditions of life.