History and Class Consciousness

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History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics

Cover of the first edition
Author	György Lukács
Original title	Geschichte und Klassenbewußtsein: Studien über marxistische Dialektik
Translator	Rodney Livingstone
Language	German
Subjects	Marxism
Publisher	Malik-Verlag, The Merlin Press
Publication date	1923
Publication place	Germany
Published in English	1971
Media type	Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages	356 (English edition)
ISBN	0-262-62020-0

History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (German: Geschichte und Klassenbewußtsein – Studien über marxistische Dialektik) is a collection of essays by the Hungarian Marxist philosopher György Lukács, first published in 1923. It is a seminal work in the development of Western Marxism, moving beyond the economism and determinism of the Second International and exploring the dialectical relationship between the subject and object of history, particularly class consciousness and reification.

The book is the work for which Lukács is best known. Nevertheless, it was condemned in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and Lukács later repudiated its ideas, coming to believe that in it he had confused Hegel's concept of alienation with that of Marx's. It has been suggested that the concept of reification as employed in the philosopher Martin Heidegger's Being and Time (1927) was influenced by History and Class Consciousness, though such a relationship remains disputed.