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Georg Lukacs: The Fundamental Dissonance of Existence: Aesthetics, Politics, Literature

Georg Lukacs: The Fundamental Dissonance of Existence: Aesthetics, Politics, Literature

Bewes, Timothy
Bewes, Timothy
Hall, Timothy

Hardcover

PhilosophyArt Criticism & TheoryLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1441157905
ISBN13: 9781441157904
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: May 12 2011
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The end of the Soviet period, the vast expansion in the power and influence of capital, and recent developments in social and aesthetic theory, have made the work of Hungarian Marxist philosopher and social critic Georg Lukcs more vital than ever. The very innovations in literary method that, during the 80s and 90s, marginalized him in the West have now made possible new readings of Lukcs, less in thrall to the positions taken by Lukcs himself on political and aesthetic matters. What these developments amount to, this book argues, is an opportunity to liberate Lukcs's thought from its formal and historical limitations, a possibility that was always inherent in Lukcs's own thinking about the paradoxes of form. This collection brings together recent work on Lukcs from the fields of Philosophy, Social and Political Thought, Literary and Cultural Studies. Against the odds, Lukcs's thought has survived: as a critique of late capitalism, as a guide to the contradictions of modernity, and as a model for a temperament that refuses all accommodation with the way things are.

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