With this description of capitalist society, Lukács combines Weber’s theory of rationalization, Simmel’s theory of modern culture and his own idea of a contradiction between form and life (see Dannemann 1987) with Marx’s theory of value. The resulting theory of reification as a socially induced pathology has not only had considerable influence on the Frankfurt School (for the influence of Lukács on Adorno, see Schiller 2011 and Braunstein/Duckheim 2015; for the engagement of the later generations of Frankfurt School criticism with Lukács see Habermas 1984: 355–365; Honneth 2008; cf. also Chari 2010, Kavoulakos 2017), but has also lead Lucien Goldmann to speculate that Heidegger’s Being and Time is to be read as an answer to Lukács (Goldmann 1977).