本书贯穿了必须恢复被第二国际的领袖们所遗忘和歪曲了的马克思主义的真正哲学意义的思想。在书中，作者首先提出马克思主义不过是一种方法，而后提出“马克思主义辩证法的本质是具体的总体的范畴”、“历史的本质在于它是人类活动的产物”、“物化”等一系列概念、表述并使“阶级意识问题”在本书中占据相当主要的地位。

《审美特性（套装上下册）》是卢卡奇关于美学和文艺学的集大成之作。书中以日常生活作为美学的本体论基础，从马克思主义反映论、实践论和生存论的视角对审美和艺术做了系统的考察，成为国外阐释性美学的一种范本。书中坚持唯物论与辩证法的统一，对艺术和审美的起源、审美的目标和结构本质、艺术创作和接受的心理学及美学原理以及艺术的社会效应做了独到的剖析，并且指出，艺术具有反拜物化的使命，它要在他律与自律的博弈中，发挥人类自我意识的功能。

《小说理论》是匈牙利著名哲学家卢卡奇的名著，从历史哲学论探讨了伟大史诗的诸形式。该书的主要意义在于，通过对史诗时代和现代的分析、对比和对各种不同类型小说中主人公特点的集中褒贬评论，表达了一大部分知识分子对史诗时代的怀念、对现代资本主义社会的极端不满以及对未来世界的思考、探索和憧憬。此外，卢卡奇在这部著作中把时代看作是史诗和小说的承担者，把小说视为“一个时代的史诗”，“我们时代的具有代表性的艺术形式”。

Georg Lukacs wrote The Theory of the Novel in 1914-1915, a period that also saw the conception of Rosa Luxemburg's Spartacus Letters , Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism , Spengler's Decline of the West , and Ernst Bloch's Spirit of Utopia . Like many of Lukacs's early essays, it is a radical critique of bourgeois culture and stems from a specific Central European philosophy of life and tradition of dialectical idealism whose originators include Kant, Hegel, Novalis, Marx, Kierkegaard, Simmel, Weber, and Husserl.

The Theory of the Novel marks the transition of the Hungarian philosopher from Kant to Hegel and was Lukacs's last great work before he turned to Marxism-Leninism.

This is the first time one of the most important of Lukacs' early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923, has been made available in English. The book consists of a series of essays treating, among other topics, the definition of orthodox Marxism, the question of legality and illegality, Rosa Luxemburg as a Marxist, the changing function of Historic Marxism, class consciousness, and the substantiation and consciousness of the Proletariat.Writing in 1968, on the occasion of the appearance of his collected works, Lukacs evaluated the influence of this book as follows:"For the historical effect of History and Class Consciousness and also for the actuality of the present time one problem is of decisive importance: alienation, which is here treated for the first time since Marx as the central question of a revolutionary critique of capitalism, and whose historical as well as methodological origins are deeply rooted in Hegelian dialectic. It goes without saying that the problem was omnipresent. A few years after History and Class Consciousness was published, it was moved into the focus of philosophical discussion by Heidegger in his Being and Time, a place which it maintains to this day largely as a result of the position occupied by Sartre and his followers. The philologic question raised by L. Goldmann, who considered Heidegger's work partly as a polemic reply to my (admittedly unnamed) work, need not be discussed here. It suffices today to say that the problem was in the air, particularly if we analyze its background in detail in order to clarify its effect, the mixture of Marxist and Existentialist thought processes, which prevailed especially in France immediately after the Second World War. In this connection priorities, influences, and so on are not particularly significant. What is important is that the alienation of man was recognized and appreciated as the central problem of the time in which we live, by bourgeois as well as proletarian, by politically rightist and leftist thinkers. Thus, History and Class Consciousness exerted a profound effect in the circles of the youthful intelligentsia."George Lichtheim, also in 1968, writes that "...The originality of the early Lukacs lay in the assertion that the totality of history could be apprehended by adopting a particular 'class standpoint': that of the proletariat. Class consciousness;not indeed the empirical consciousness of the actual proletariat, which was hopelessly entangled with the surface aspects of objective reality, but an ideal-typical consciousness proper to a class which radically negates the existing order of reality: that was the formula which had made it possible for the Lukacs of 1923 to unify theory and practice."

No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a continuous, interlinked debate between thinkers who have become giants of twentieth-century intellectual history.

作为“西方马克思主义”思潮的创始人，卢卡奇深刻参与到中国马克思主义理论形态和学术形态的当代重塑过程。《卢卡奇研究指南》（三卷本）精选近半个世纪以来英语、德语、俄语、法语等学界有关卢卡奇的经典研究论述，系统展现卢卡奇各个思想发展阶段、各个思想发展维度的国际学术共识，努力为国内卢卡奇研究提供坚实的学术支撑。《卢卡奇研究指南》三卷本分别对应卢卡奇早、中、晚期的思想，第一卷聚焦卢卡奇的早期思想，第二卷主要讨论卢卡奇影响最大的著作《历史与阶级意识》，第三卷主要探究卢卡奇中、晚期理论著作。