Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea
Edited by Martin Jay (NHC Fellow, 2005–06) In the early 20th century, Marxist theory was enriched and rejuvenated by adopting the concept of reification, introduced by the Hungarian theorist Georg Lukács to identify and denounce the transformation of historical processes into ahistorical entities, human actions into things that seemed part of an immutable "second nature." … Continued