„The Point Where System and History Meet”

At the heart of my paper is a short, speculative and extremely difficult section of the Reification essay in Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness. In these few paragraphs Lukács develops his ideas on a specific achievement of the dialectical method, namely the identification of the point „where system and history meet”. I first shed light on the context and the key concepts essential for the interpretation of the passage, and then analyse the text sentence by sentence, reconstructing its connections with the Hegelian Logic as well as the methodology of the Marxian critique of political economy.