Protest Against Closing Down the Lukács Archive

           Books by Lukacs:

• 1950. Studies in European Realism. London: Hillway.[a]
• 1962. [1937, Rus.; 1947, Hun.]. The Historical Novel. London: Merlin.
• 1963. [1955, Ger.]. The Meaning of Contemporary Realism. London: Merlin.[b]
• 1964. [1947, Hun.]. Essays on Thomas Mann. London: Merlin.
• 1968. [1947, Ger.]. Goethe and His Age. London: Merlin.
• 1970. [1924, Ger.] Lenin: A Study on the Unity of his Thought. London: New Left Books.[c]
• 1970. [1969, Ger.]. Solzhenitsyn. London: Merlin.[c]
• 1970. Writer and Critic, and Other Essays. Edited by Arthur Kahn. London: Merlin.
• 1971. [1923, Ger.]. History and Class Consciousness. London: Merlin.[c]
• 1971. [1916/1920, Ger.: Die Theorie des Romans]. The Theory of the Novel. London: Merlin.[c]
• 1972. [1919, Hun.]. Tactics and Ethics. Edited by Rodney Livingstone. London: New Left Books.
• 1973. Marxism and Human Liberation. Edited by E. San Juan, Jr. New York: Dell.
• 1974. Conversations with Lukács. Edited by Theo Pinkus. London: Merlin.[c]
• 1974. [1910, Hun.]. Soul and Form. London: Merlin.
• 1975. [1948, Ger.]. The Young Hegel. London: Merlin.[c]
• 1978. The Ontology of Social Being. 1, Hegel's False and His Genuine Ontology. London: Merlin.
• 1978. The Ontology of Social Being. 2, Marx's Basic Ontological Premises. London: Merlin.
• 1980. [1954, Ger.]. The Destruction of Reason. London: Merlin.
• 1980. [1948, Ger.]. Essays on Realism. Edited by Rodney Livingstone. London: Lawrence and Wishart.
• 1980. The Ontology of Social Being. 3, Labour. London: Merlin.
• 1983. Record of a Life. Edited by István Eörsi. London: Verso.
• 1983. Reviews and Articles from "Die Rote Fahne". London: Merlin.
• 1986. Selected Correspondence, 1902–1920. Edited by Judith Marcus and Zoltán Tar. New York: Columbia University Press.
• 1991. The Process of Democratization. Albany: State University of New York Press.
• 1993. [1951, Ger.]. German Realists in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Rodney Livingstone. London: Libris.[c]
• 1995. The Lukács Reader. Edited by Arpad Kadarkay. Oxford: Blackwell.
• 2002. [1996, Ger.]. A Defence of "History and Class Consciousness." London: Verso.
• 2010. [1910, Hun.]. Soul and Form. New ed. Edited by John T. Sanders and Katie Terezakis. New York: Columbia University Press.
• 2012. The Culture of People's Democracy. Edited by Tyrus Miller. Leiden: Brill.

Lukacs is the among the most important European philosophers of the modern era.  His works are a testament to the power of the human intellect and the depth of the human spirit, those who are in a position to do so are obliged to preserve them.

The Lukacs Archiv is necessary for international historical researches. Because Lukacs Gyorgy is a very important person in the history of ideas.

The Gyorgy Lukacs Archiv is invaluable to students and academics today and access must be preserved  for and permitted  to those in following generations.

I am signing the petition not as a Marxist, nor as an anti-Communist, but as someone who respects the great European intellectual tradition of which Mr. Georg Lukacs is an inalienable part in the 20th century. Let's make every effort to preserve Mr. Lukacs home and archive for the purpose of letting future generations to freely debate his as well as any other thinker's legacy.

I am signing the petition not as a Marxist, nor as an anti-Communist, but as someone who respects the great European intellectual tradition of which Mr. Georg Lukacs is an inalienable part in the 20th century. Let's make every effort to preserve Mr. Lukacs home and archive for the purpose of letting future generations freely debate his as well as any other thinker's legacy.

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences has taken its decision about closing down the Lukács Archive:

BOOKSHELF WITHOUT BOOKS – DANCE WITHOUT MUSIC