Realismo senza materialismo. György Lukács interprete di Nicolai Hartmann

Realism without Materialism: György Lukács as an Interpreter of Nicolai Hartmann. This paper examines György Lukács’s increasingly intense engagement with Nicolai Hartmann’s philosophy, from the early 1950s until his death in 1971. While Hartmann’s critical ontology is addressed only peripherally in the great Aesthetics, it assumes a central role in the Ontology of Social Being, serving as a crucial theoretical and critical touchstone for Lukács in his later years. Lukács initially identifies areas of compatibility between his conception of Marxism as the ontology of social being and Hartmann’s general approach to the natural sciences, the stratified structure of reality, and realism. However, fundamental divergences also surface, particularly regarding the genesis and development of social being and the specific nature of ideal being. This study argues that the late Lukács’s rapprochement with Hartmann was facilitated by their shared commitment to realism, yet the deep philosophical differences between their frameworks ultimately precluded any genuine complementarity.