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Brecht and Lukács as teachers of Feyerabend and Lakatos: the Feyerabend-Lakatos debate as scientific recapitulation of the Brecht- Lukács debate

Feyerabend and Lakatos were invited to be assistants of the literary Marxists Brecht and Lukács, respectively. In the 1930s Expressionism Debate, Lukács associated artistic expressionism with irrationalism and fascism, while Brecht criticized Lukács' anti-modernism. Lakatos' criti cisms of Kuhn echo Lukács' denunciations of German idealism, and Lukács influenced the terminology and topics in Lakatos' methodol ogy. Lakatos, concerned with progress, and fearful of irrationalism and degeneration, recapitulates positions of his teacher, Lukács, in the latter's attack on modern art. Feyerabend's criticisms of Lakatos paral lel Brecht's critique of Lukács.

Key Words: Brecht • Feyerabend • Lakatos • Lukács • Marxism • philos ophy of science

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History of the Human Sciences, Vol. 11, No. 2, 25-44 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/095269519801100202


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