Lukács’s radical negation of bourgeois culture attracted Max Weber’s interest.

Evidence

After extended visits to Berlin and Florence, Lukács settled in Heidelberg in 1913 at the urging of Bloch, whom he had met through Simmel. … In those years, what Lukács and Bloch had in common were their radical negation of the alienated, cultureless bourgeois-capitalist world and their attempts to sketch out millennial conservative, religious utopias. … This combination brought him the interest and sympathy of Max Weber, with whose circle he was connected. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 309

Categorization

• XREF: The paradox of Weber, master of value-free science, being drawn to Lukács’s millennial negation is a notable biographical irony in critical theory’s genealogy. — connects to: Lukács fused Weber’s rationalization and Marx’s fetishism with idealist class struggle — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 322; Lukacs’s Leninist loyalty and anti-modernist taste limited his critical flexibility — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 537; Lukács’s methodological rigor over aesthetics drew Weber’s patronage

Broader Connections

• Lukács fused Weber’s rationalization and Marx’s fetishism with idealist class struggle #corroborates (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 322
• Lukacs’s Leninist loyalty and anti-modernist taste limited his critical flexibility #qualifies (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 537