Editorial Archive
The closure of the Lukács Archive in Budapest
by Radical Philosophy / RP 197 (May/June 2016) / EditorialFollowing the death of Georg Lukács, the Soviets seized the opportunity to commemorate but also to direct his legacy by turning his apartment, which overlooks the Danube, into an archive. Within it are the books that Lukács dragged with him to Germany and Austria after fleeing Budapest, following the fall of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet …