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Textbook revision and research have historically been two of the central pillars of the work of the Georg Eckert Institute, and remain so today. The history of the Institute demonstrates just how intertwined they are. Against this backdrop, the development of the Institute is presented and critically examined from different perspectives, using a broad range of source materials. The book pays particular attention to the collection of textbooks for the humanities and social sciences, which has been important from the beginning and is now the largest in the world. The history of the Institute illustrates how academic perspectives, as well as political and financial instruments, related to textbook research and revision have changed as part of the shift from bilateral cooperation to global networks. The Institute has always responded to changing social contexts and its foci have provided important stimuli for economists, education practitioners and policy makers.

I. Ward, A. W. Some aims and aspirations of European politics in the nineteenth century. -- II. Westlake, J. Introduction to the international history of Europe in the nineteenth century. -- III. Rose, J. H. England's commercial struggle with Napoleon. -- IV. Laughton, J. K. Britain's naval policy. -- V. Marcks, E. The transformation of Germany by Prussia. -- VI. Marcks, E. Bismarck. -- VII. Reich, E. Austria and Hungary in the nineteenth century. -- VIII. Vinogradoff, P. The meaning of present Russian development. -- XIV. Gooch, G. P. The problem of the near East. -- XV. Browne, E. G. Pan-Islamism. -- XVI. Lawrence, T. J. England and the United States. -- XVII. Hannah, I. C. The problem of the Far East. ; Mode of access: Internet.

AbstractDuring the winter of 1968–69, members of the so-called Budapest School formulated a scathing "review" of Georg Lukács' late work, Ontology of Social Being. In the wake of the objections (but not in accordance with them), Lukács began to revise the text, but was unable to complete it: he died in June 1971. The disciples' critique, published in English and German in 1976, played a major role in the reception history of Ontology—or rather in the fact that the 1500-page "philosophical fiasco" still has no remarkable reception history. The main criticism of the disciples is that Lukács' work mixes two incompatible ontologies and recalls the worst traditions of Soviet Marxism. In this paper, I will argue that the disciples' "review" is misleading (nevertheless, the historical circumstances may provide a sufficient explanation for this) because there are no "two ontologies" in Lukács' unfinished book. I will concentrate on the source of the misunderstanding, the Lukácsian thesis of the "post festum-rationality" of history, and in the light of this I will analyse how Lukács describes the open determination of individual and collective action in the process of the social reproduction of life.