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Author: Professor Timothy Bewes ,
Dr Timothy Hall ,
Timothy Bewes ,
David Cunningham
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.537kg
ISBN: 9781441157904
ISBN 10: 1441157905
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 12 May 2011
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: English
Reviews
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)
Materialist and formalist, realist and utopian, ontological and prophetic, militant and rebel, Gyoergy 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 The substance of [this book] remains refreshingly persistent, then, in focusing on critical illuminations of Lukacs, most effectively in the central set of essays... What emerges is the need for a thorough rereading and rethinking of History and Class Consciousness as a primary text in contemporary political philosophy.... The inclusion of translations of two essays by Lukacs himself...helps to give this book an edge. -- Drew Milne * Radical Philosophy 171 * Loewy's essay beautifully does what Lukacs does at his best, and what this collection as a whole does as well: it challenges deadening constructions and shows how diminished relationships - within a tradition, among works, between people and the natural and social world - can be returned to the realm of dynamic engagement. -- Katie Terezakis * New Formations * There is clearly a lot going on in these volumes... each contains some strong essays which, taken together, reaffirm Lukacs as a figure to be reckoned with. -- Bryan Smyth * Symposium 16:2 *
Author Information
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). 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).
