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Chvostismus und Dialectik», a text recently discovered in the Russian archives, and which has been published in Budapest, contains the answers formulated by Lukacs to the criticism which his book, «History and class consciousness» (1923) met with on the part of the communist orthodoxy of the time. Bearing the mark of the manichean character of the ideological conflicts whithin the communist movement in the 1920's, the text offers an opportunity to take stock of the tumultuous history of the reception and interpretation of Luckas's most famous work, which aroused the interest, even the enthousiasm, of minds as diverse as Merleau-Ponty, Cornelisu Castoriadis, or Jurgen Habermas. The parallel examination of these outlined by Lukacs in «The ontology of social being» and those elaborated by Habermas in his «Theory of communicational action» can thow light on one of the most recent episodes of his heritage, the reverberations of which are far from over

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