de.hypothesesWho gets remembered as an intellectual and who disappears into the footnotes? Gertrúd Bortstieber published her radical translations as “the wife of György Lukács.” Their story challenges the idea of the academic “power couple”.
"Now that her papers are accessible to researchers, the task of identifying her own voice from those documents is not merely a biographical corrective", writes Anna Nakai ⬇️
Anna Nakai, Beyond “Power Couple” —The Case of György Lukács and Gertrúd Bortstieber
György Lukács is an iconic Hungarian philosopher whose name most people encounter within the context of Marxist theory and literary and art criticism. For the history of twentieth-century Hungary, he fulfilled a peculiar role: his trajectory illustrated a pattern of how a young Communist developed his intellectual gifts through the critical transformation of European society…
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