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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Summary
| 2023 BHSU @ Berkeley | 03/18/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Maryland | 03/11/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Northwestern | 02/25/2023 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 83% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU Online | 04/15/2023 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Sheffield | 04/15/2023 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Waterloo | 04/15/2023 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
Data
| Broken Imperial Nomads | Buzzers Karamazov | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Magisters Ludi | Oxford Hornets | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |