Contributors  Introduction Part 1: Fundamental Aspects of Lukács’ Ontology of Social Being  1 Ontology and Labor in the Lukács’ Late Thought  Antonino Infranca and Miguel Vedda  2 Lukács and the Reshaping of Marxism: From Hartmann’s to Lukács’Ontology  Endre Kiss  3 Lukács’ Ontology of Social Being and the Material Basis of Intentionality  Matthew J. Smetona Part 2: Hegelian-Marxist Dimensions of Lukács’ Social Ontology  4 György Lukács’ Ontological Interpretation of Marx’s Labor Theory of Value  Murillo van der Laan  5 The Ontology of Alienation: Lukács’ Normative Theory of History  Andreas Giesbert  6 Lukács’ Late Appropriation of Hegel’s Philosophy: The Ontology of Materialist Dialectics and the Complexities of Labor as Teleological Positing  Michalis Skomvoulis Part 3: Lukács’ Social Ontology and Contemporary Philosophy  7 On the “Constitution of Human Society”: Lukács’ versus Searle’s Social Ontology  Claudius Vellay  8 Why Still Reification? Toward a Critical Social Ontology  Thomas Telios  9 Unlikely Affinities: J.L. Borges, Kuhn, Lakatos and Ontological Critique  Mario Duayer  10 The Politics of Nature, Left and Right: Comparing the Ontologies of Georg Lukács and Bruno Latour  Christoph Henning Part 4: Toward a Critical Social Ontology  11 From Critical Theory to Critical Ontology: Back to Lukács!  Michael Morris  12 Normativity and Totality: Lukács’ Contribution to a Critical Social Ontology  Titus Stahl  13 Lukács and the Problem of Knowledge: Critical Ontology as Social Theory  Reha Kadakal  14 Marx, Lukács and the Groundwork for Critical Social Ontology  Michael J. Thompson  Index