ABSTRACT
The Lukácsian concept of reification has regained academic relevance. It has again been discussed in different contexts of contemporary Marxism—by representatives of the latest generations of the Frankfurt School and by informed circles of British academic Marxists. 1 This allows one to read Lukács’s original concept—but also its further expansion and development in Debord’s theory of spectacle—in new light or to at least shed new light on interpretations that have gotten lost in the conjunctures of discourse.
