„You are Schizophrenic!”

Mihály Vajda and György Lukács’s juvenile essay period

Abstract

This paper discusses the following three issues: Firstly, there are no evidences. How is it still possible for them to exist? Secondly, Mihály Vajda wrote twenty-five individual books and co-authored numerous volumes. Knowing essentially the four hefty publications of his Selected Works, running approximately four thousand pages long, I declare that his essay collection titled Changing Evidences (1992), which includes writings from the period between 1970 and 1975, is the peak of his philosophical life’s work. Lastly, I argue that, considering all differences, Changing Evidences holds more or less the same position in the life’s work of Vajda as does The Soul and the Forms in the extensive career of György Lukács. Both books represent the essence of the writers’ thinking in their youth and, from the perspective of their lifetimes’ achievement, mutatis mutandis, are their most important works. In my view, at least one of their main works.