The Lukacs Reader (Blackwell Readers) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557865701 ISBN 13: 9781557865700

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1995

Synopsis

One of the foremost Marxist theorists of his generation, author of among other classics "History of the Development of Modern Drama" (1911), "History and Class Consciousness" (1923) and "The Historical Novel" (1937), Georg Lukacs was a prolific writer of wide, if moralistic, tastes. This reader represents the great range and variety of Lukacs's output, collecting work from four fields of activity: autobiography, drama and tragedy, art and literature, philosophy and politics - material for the most part not previously published in English. The reader includes, in original translations and with introductory essays, Lukacs on: Kierkegaard, Shakespeare, Ford, Strindberg, Ibsen, Wilde, Shaw, Gaughin, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche and Heidegger. Also collected are: the autobiographical "On the Poverty of Spirit", material from Lukacs's diary, and such key articles as: "Aesthetic Culture", "The Ideology of Modernism", "Bolshevism as an Ethical Problem" and "Class Consciousness". What emerges is a figure very much at the centre of European thought whose value to modern culture and philosophy differs markedly from that which received opinion generally admits. Arpad Kadarkay is the author of "Georg Lukacs: Life, Thought and Politics".

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Review:

"This collection of essays emphasizes the romantic. It includes an early essay in which Lukacs compares the strangest of his own love affairs with Kerkegaard′s, as well as essays on Stridberg, Ibsen, Wilde and Shaw." Leslie Armour, Library Journal

From the Back Cover:

One of the greatest Marxist theorists of his generation, author of among other classics History of the Development of Modern Drama (1911), History and Class Consciousness (1923) and The Historical Novel (1937), Georg Lukacs was a prolific writer of remarkably catholic, if moralistic, tastes. In the The Lukacs Reader, his biographer Arpad Kadarkay represents the great range and variety of Lukacs′s output, collecting work from four fields of activity: autobiography, drama and tragedy, art and literature, philosophy and politics – material for the most part not previously published in English.
The reader includes, in original translations, and with introductory essays, Lukacs on: Kierkegaard, Shakespeare, Ford, Strindberg, Ibsen, Wilde, Shaw, Gauguin, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. Also collected are: the autobiographical ′On the Poverty of Spirit′, material from Lukacs′s diary, and such key articles as: ′Aesthetic Culture′, ′The Ideology of Modernism′, ′Bolshevism as an Ethical Problem′, and ′Class Consciousness′.

What emerges is a figure very much at the centre of European thought whose value to modern culture and philosophy differs markedly from that which received opinion generally admits.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1557865701
• ISBN 13: 9781557865700
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Kadarkay Arpad