The lukácsian ontological concept of value: advancements and limitations

• Grant number: 14/10520-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: August 01, 2014
• End date: January 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Fundamentals of Sociology
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Jesus José Ranieri
• Grantee: Murillo Augusto de Souza van der Laan
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 16/17054-4 - György Lukács's ontological interpretation of Marx's theory of value, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

At the end of the 1950s, György Lukács, proposed a Marxism renaissance that would be able to face the neopositivists developments of the bourgeois philosophy and the theoretical distortions of Marx advanced by the stalinist taticism. Though he couldn't finish his research, he left us a rich ontological reading of Marx. In the core of this conception we find labour as the founding category of the social being and model of the praxis. Investigating this complex, Lukács presents us his ontological idea of value as an intricated and dynamic relation between teleology and causality based on a radically historical, immanent, unitary and objective perspective of value that does not abdicate of a reflexion about the consciousness' active role in the causal network of reality. The Hungarian philosopher's analysis focuses on the unfolding and connection between the different forms of valuation, especially those involving the use values, economic values and the range of "not economic" values. It is this valuation concept that this project takes as its object, advancing the hypothesis that the lukácsean conception is fruitful to interpret social values, specially economic values, since undertakes a dialectical comprehension of objectivity and subjectivity in the field of valuations, trying to keep distance from the conceptions that obliterate the role of consciousness in the reproduction of the social being, but also from the ones that overestimate this same role. Nevertheless, regarding economic values, Lukács overstretch the comprehension of Marx's labor value theory, understand it as valid to all social formations. This represents a limit, in our provisonal understanding, of the lukácsean conception of human emancipation. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

LAAN, Murillo Augusto de Souza van der. Value in lukacsian ontology: contributions and limits. 2020. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.