Question

An essay on this concept and “the consciousness of the proletariat” defines it as the process by which a worker’s “qualities and abilities” become objectified and separated from his personality. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this central concept of György Lukács’s (LOO-kahch’s) History and Class Consciousness, an alienating process that freezes social relations under capitalism and renders subjectivity “thing-like.”
ANSWER: reification [or Verdinglichung]
[10e] The concept of reification was influential on several of the critical theorists from this school, such as Herbert Marcuse and Theodor Adorno.
ANSWER: Frankfurt School
[10h] In the 1962 preface to his Theory of the Novel, Lukacs used this three-word phrase, describing a location “on the edge…of nothingness,” “equipped with every comfort,” to attack the passivity of the Frankfurt School.
ANSWER: grand hotel abyss” [or grand hotel abgrund]
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