Lukács, social reproduction and the determinations of leisure in late capitalismo
Lukács; Ontology of Social Being; Social Reproduction; Late Capitalism; Leisure.
This thesis proposes a structured investigation based on the complex of social reproduction, presented by Gyorgy Lukács in his mature text entitled the Ontology of the Social Being II, insofar as he offers us elements that help us understand not only contemporary capitalism, as the very dynamics of its partial social complexes, such as leisure. From this pillar, the study, with a historical-dialectical materialist theoretical tone and constituted according to a qualitative approach based on bibliographical and documentary research, extends to the examination of capitalism in its imperialist and late stage, pointing out, especially, some of its aspects economic, social, political and ideological. Next, the research deals with the concepts of mode of production and social classes, to, based on these elements, as well as the perspective of social reproduction mentioned above, discuss leisure, historicizing it and identifying its determinations in the contemporary stage, which are expressed, by way of example, in the hegemony of its commodity form and the fetishism that permeates it. In this part of the text, some introductory notes are presented on the emancipatory possibilities of leisure, the concreteness of what we could consider a context of full freedom and, finally, the differences between the leisure of times gone by in the history of humanity and contemporary leisure. Concluding the study, also according to Lukács, the alienation complex is discussed and some notes are made about its expression in the leisure complex.