Lukács's Phenomenology of Capitalism: Reification Revalued

1.Introduction: the Lukács debate.1. Romantic anti-capitalism.2. The equality of subject and object.3. Untangling the web of influence.4. Argument
Part I: The Road to Reification
2. Reality and Representation in Art1.Truth versus judgment: transcending psychologism.2.The autonomy of art: Fiedler and Riegl.3.The philosophical framework: Husserl and Lask.4.The artwork as totality.5.Subject and object.6.Conclusion.
3.The History of History & Class Consciousness.1. Revolutionary eschatology.2. The theoretical return to Heidelberg.3. Conscious knowledge to conscious being.4. Conclusion.
Part II: The Phenomenology of Capitalism
4. The Forms of Social Reality.1. The division of the object as commodity.2. The logic of social forms.3. Totality and the standpoint.4. Conclusion.
5. The Interpellation of the Subject.1. Fichte redivivus?2. The problem of the subject-object relationship.3. The ontic interpellation of the subject.4. Agency and subjectivity.5. The moral imperatives of history.6. Conclusion.
6. Self-consciousness and Identity.1. Consciousness and experience.2. The structure of individual identity.3. Selfhood and social being.4. Conclusion
Part III: Beyond the Proletarian Revolution
7. The Social and the Natural1. The domination of nature.2. The duality of nature and society.3. The ontic antinomy of nature.4. The historical basis of the antinomy of nature.5. Conclusion
8. Conclusion: Lukács in late capitalism1. Back to Hegel and Marx.2. Towards a new phenomenology of social being.3. The late capitalist subject.4. The rational critique of postmodernity.