72 , SOCIAL SCIENTIST tendencies. Lately, for example, there has been much talk about intrinsically evil character of 'modern Western science and technology' and the havoc that it has played with the 'Indian Mind' (read Hindu Mind). There is this famous argument that colonialism creates conditions in which opposition to colonialism itself tends to convert itself into an intellectually effective colonising agency. Hence, the. conclusion that by rejecting the 'modern Western culture' and 'modern Western science9, we have a chance of escaping the nightmare that haunts the West today. Interestingly, in one recent work of such a, theoretician on the 'loss and rediscovery of self under colonialism', a long politico-psychological treatise, the word 'capitalism' is conspicuously absent— though the ^demoniacal' world of industry, technology and rationalism haunts the author. It is because of currents like these that a study of Lukacs* seminal work on irrationalism gains added relevance. / ASAD ZAIDI Research Scholar, Centre for the Studies of Social Systems, JawaharFal Nehru University, New Delhi.