Dear Section Members,

Below is a letter and website that may be of interest to folks in the section.

Yours,

Brett

Dear friends and subscribers,

Today, Friday, July 1st, 2016, we sent the attached letter to the distinguished group in Budapest now engaged in setting up a foundation to preserve the Georg Lukacs archive. We have opened the letter for further signatories on an appropriate website (http://www.save-georg-lukacs-archive.org/ or http://www.open-letter-georg-lukacs-archive.org/).

With kind regards,

Sven Herrmann, John Mage

To whomever it may concern!

We, the subscribers to this letter, are concerned about the future of the Georg Lukacs Archive (GLA) in Budapest. Given the difficulties the GLA faces due to the current political situation in Hungary, we believe that a secured continuation of the work of the GLA can only be based upon the independence of the GLA from any other institution. To this end, we strongly support the idea of the establishment of an independent international foundation. In our opinion this foundation should above all take over the literary estate and archive of Georg Lukacs. Furthermore, if at all possible it should also take over the former flat of Georg Lukacs to enable the GLA to continue its important work at the place where it is has always been. To put it in a nutshell, we should strive for an independent future for the GLA at its historical place – the former flat of Georg Lukacs in Budapest. 

We the subscribers are willing to do what we can to make the initiative of the International Georg Lukacs Foundation a success.

Please let us know when and what specific support is needed!

Kevin B. Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara Timothy Bewes, Brown University

Sebastian Budgen, Senior Editor Verso Books, Editorial Board member Historical Materialism 

Judith Butler, University of California at Berkeley

Robin Celikates, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Brett Clark, University of Utah, Editorial Committee Monthly ReviewRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Historian, author, professor emeritus California State UniversitySalvatore Engel-DiMauro, State University of New York at New Paltz, Editor in Chief Capitalism Nature SocialismAndrew Feenberg, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, British ColumbiaJohn Bellamy Foster, University of Oregon, Editor Monthly Review

Arnaud FRANÇOIS, Professeur à l'Université de Poitiers, Département de Philosophie, France

Annina Gagyiova, Historikerin, Prague, Czech Republic

Prof. Dr. habil. Wolfgang Geyer, Leipzig, Germany

Prof. Dr. Michael Heinrich, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, Germany

Sven Herrmann, Rechtsanwalt, Berlin, Germany

Fredric R. Jameson, Duke University

Dr. sc. Hartmut Kästner, Leipzig Germany

Prof. Dr. sc. Klaus Kinner, Leipzig, Germany

Dr. phil. Volker Külow, Leipzig, Germany

Michael Löwy,  Research director in social sciences emeritus,  Paris,  France.

John Mage, Attorney, Editorial Committee Monthly Review

Malgorzata Mazurek, Associate Professor, Columbia University, New York

Prof. Dr. sc. Manfred Neuhaus, Leipzig, Germany

Dr. phil. habil. Antonia Opitz, Leipzig, Germany

Peter Osborne, Philosophy, Director, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University LondonAnne F. Pomeroy, Philosophy, Stockton University

Malte Rolf, Prof. Dr., Universität Bamberg, Germany

Dr. phil. Monika Runge, Leipzig, Germany

Helena Sheehan, Dublin City University, Ireland

Guillaume SIBERTIN-BLANC, Institut Universitaire de France, Maître de conférence en Philosophie, Université de ToulouseMichael E. Tigar, Human rights lawyer, professor emeritus at Duke Law School and Washington College of Law

Massimiliano Tomba, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Università di Padova, Italia

PD Dr. Annette Vowinckel, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam, Germany

Victor Wallis, Managing Editor, Socialism and Democracy 

Frieder Otto Wolf, Hon.-Prof. Philosophie, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany