Twenty five years after the death of Georg Lukács, in 1996 the International Georg Lukács Society was founded at the University of Paderborn, Germany.

The society's aim is based on the idea to bring together representatives of different academic disciplines (philosophers, literary and sociology scientists) with the critically engaged public thus providing the occasion to productively discuss, above all with regard to the presence, the work and person of the Hungary philosopher, estethic and literary historian.

In this sense, the society edits a year book with contributions of and to Lukács, under successive deployment of his comprehensive Budapest inheritance, and essays on his intellectual surroundings. Furtherly, the year book should establish a critical development and further growth of his thinking on several fields of his intellectual and practical-political engagement.

Parallely, the society edits a series, in which works of Lukács as well as studies on his work and influence will be published. The society founders believe it is highly vital to re-establish a critical, open, and undogmatic thinking in the scientific-academic and in the public discourse, a thinking which had been sacrificed out of opportunism or pression but against historical reason - after the "Wende" and after several international turnabouts.

The society closely cooperates with the Lukács Institute of Sociological Studies in Paderborn and the Lukács Archive in Budapest, Hungary.