The intellectual must maintain critical distance while remai... - Georg Lukács

This quote is attributed to Georg Lukács.

"The intellectual must maintain critical distance while remaining engaged with the struggles of the present."

Georg Lukács Philosophy

Marxist Theorist Hungarian 1885–1971

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