Abstract: The concept of totality ran through the whole of Lukacs’s thought,which was interpreted as the unity of life and essence as well as a cultural form of ancient Greece in his early book The Theory of Novel.However,totality was only expressed in the form of art in modern society.In his History and Class Consciousness,totality referred to the nature of capitalism recognized by proletariat,a unity of proletariat consciousness and existence,and it could only be expressed by the class-consciousness of proletariat.It was until the appearance of Aesthetic Features that totality was interpreted as the historical necessity of social existence,and finally became a Marxism ontology concept.

Key words: Lukacs, totality, epistemology, dialectic, ontology