Overview

This title re-examines the principal themes of Lukacs' work, considering their relevance for a new generation of scholars interested in the relations between politics and aesthetics. 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 Lukacs 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 Lukacs, less in thrall to the positions taken by Lukacs himself on political and aesthetic matters. What these developments amount to, this book argues, is an opportunity to liberate Lukacs' thought from its formal and historical limitations, a possibility that was always inherent in Lukacs' own thinking about the paradoxes of form. This collection brings together recent work on Lukacs from the fields of Philosophy, Social and Political Thought, Literary and Cultural Studies. Against the odds, Lukacs' 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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Author:   Timothy Hall ,  Timothy Bewes ,  Timothy Bewes ,  David Cunningham
Publisher:   Continuum Publishing Corporation
Imprint:   Continuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN:  

9781441121080

ISBN 10:   1441121080
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   10 March 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Electronic book text
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Table of Contents

Introduction Timothy Bewes and Timothy Hall; Part I: Extensions; 1. Georg Lukacs and Franz Kafka: On Critical Realism Michael Lowy; 2. Critical Realisms of Contemporary Art Gail Day; 3. Allan Sekula's Novelistic Fantasy : Literary Realism and Photographic Art Andrew Fisher; 4. Capitalism and The Theory of the Novel David Cunningham; 5. The Historical Novel After Lukacs John Marx; 6.L'art pour l'art and Proletarian Writing Georg Lukacs, (trans. Andrew Hemingway and Frederic J. Schwartz); 7. The Significance of l'art pour l'art in the Development of Lukacs's Thought, 1907-26 Andrew Hemingway; Part II: Reframings; 8. Science and Technology in the Early Marxist Writings of Marx and Lukacs Andrew Feenberg; 9. Novelty or Identity? Lukacs's conception of Critical Social Theory Timothy Hall; 10. Lukacs sans Proletariat, or Can History and Class Consciousness be Re-historicized? Neil Larsen; 11. Capitalist Life in Lukacs Stewart Martin; 12. Typing Class: On the Irreducibility of Form in Lukacs's Social, Literary and Aesthetic Theory Patrick Eiden-Offe; 13. Realism, Form, and Possibility: Lukacs on the Everyday Yoon Sun Lee; 14. How to Escape from Literature? Lukacs, Cinema, and The Theory of the Novel Timothy Bewes; Appendix; 15. The Age of Inhumanity (Preface to Probleme des Realismus III) Georg Lukacs (trans. Zachary Sng); Index.

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Materialist and formalist, realist and utopian, ontological and prophetic, militant and rebel, Gyorgy Lukacs remains a disturbing oxymoron to be interpreted - therefore transformed. In truly dialectical and dialogical manner, this books succeeds in doing just that, burying the verdicts of obsolescence, illuminating the ambivalences, and making again of the principle of totality which traverses the philosopher's writings a category for radically overturning an alienated society. (Etienne Balibar, author (with Louis Althusser) of Reading Capital)

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Timothy Hall is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Politics at the University of East London, UK. He is co-author of The Modern State: theories and ideologies (Edinburgh University Press, 2007). Timothy Bewes is Associate Professor of English at Brown University, USA. He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Novel and New Formations. His publications include Cynicism and Postmodernity (Verso, 1997), Reification, or the Anxiety of Late Capitalism (Verso, 2002), and The Event of Postcolonial Shame (Princeton University Press, 2011).

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