George Lichtheim

George Lichtheim ( born November 6, 1912 in Berlin, † 22 April 1973 in London ) was a German - British writer, whose works were occupied critical especially with the history and theory of socialism and Marxism. He made ​​it a point to be neither liberal nor communist, and described himself as a socialist.

He was a representative of the Marxist interpretation of history, and saw in Marxism the legacy of the German idealist tradition of Kant through Hegel. The later development since Friedrich Engels and the Soviet Marxism he saw critical and was of critical theory and the Frankfurt School ( Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno meadow land, Jürgen Habermas) open to.

Lichtheim 1945 Palestine came to England and initially published under the pseudonym George L. Arnold. He translated a large part of Gershom Scholem 's originally in German -written work in Jewish Mysticism in its main currents into English (Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, 1941) and wrote numerous articles for Palestine Post, Commentary, Partisan Review, Dissent, New Leader, Encounter, Times Literary Supplement and The New York Review of Books.

Lichtheim died by suicide.

Works (selection)

  • The Pattern of World Conflict. Dial Press, New York 1955
  • Marxism: An Historical and Critical Study. Praeger ( Praeger university series), New York [ua ] 1962
  • Marxism in Modern France. Columbia University Press, New York [ inter alia ] 1966
  • The Concept of Ideology, And Other Essays. Random House, New York 1967 [ dt The concept of ideology. Suhrkamp (Edition Suhrkamp 676 ), Frankfurt / M. In 1973. ISBN 3-518-00676-2 ]
  • The Origins of Socialism. Praeger ( Books That Matter ), New York 1969 [ dt Origins of Socialism ( The modern nonfiction 86). Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1969 ]
  • A Short History of Socialism. Fontana / Collins ( Fontana paperbacks ), London 1975 [ dt Brief history of socialism. Kiepenheuer & Petrovich (Studies Library ), Cologne 1972. ISBN 3-462-00891-9 ]
  • Lukács. Collins ( Fontana paperbacks ), London 1970 [ dt Georg Lukács. dtv ( Modern theorists ), Munich 1971. ISBN 3-423-00748-6 ]
  • Imperialism. Praeger, New York 1971 [ dt Imperialism. dtv ( Scientific series ), Munich 1972. ISBN 3-423-04112-9 ]
  • From Marx to Hegel. Orbach & Chambers, London 1971
  • Europe in the Twentieth Century. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1972 [ dt Europe in the 20th century. An intellectual history of the present. dtv ( Kindler cultural history of Europe 20 ), Munich 1983. ISBN 3-423-05941-9 ]
  • Thoughts Among the Ruins: Collected essays on Europe and beyond, (1973 )
  • Collected Essays, Viking 1973
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