Soul and Form

Author:   Georg Lukacs ,  Judith Butler ,  John T. Sanders ,  Katie Terezakis
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
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Pages:   264
Publication Date:   12 January 2010
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Author:   Georg Lukacs ,  Judith Butler ,  John T. Sanders ,  Katie Terezakis
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780231149808


ISBN 10:   0231149808
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   12 January 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   German

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Judith Butler 1. On the Nature and Form of the Essay: A Letter to Leo Popper 2. Platonism, Poetry and Form: Rudolf Kassner 3. The Foundering of Form Against Life: Soren Kierkegaard and Regine Olsen 4. On the Romantic Philosophy of Life: Novalis 5. The Bourgeois Way of Life and Art for Art's Sake: Theodor Storm 6. The New Solitude and Its Poetry: Stefan George 7. Longing and Form: Charles-Louis Philippe 8. The Moment and Form: Richard Beer-Hofmann 9. Richness, Chaos, and Form: A Dialogue Concerning Lawrence Sterne 10. The Metaphysics of Tragedy: Paul Ernst Sources and References On Poverty of Spirit: A Conversation and a Letter Afterword: The Legacy of Form Katie Terezakis Notes Index

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One of the most salient early works of the century is Georg Lukacs, Soul and Form. --H Net Reviews Lukacs could never be accused of being quiet, in fact it is just his 'noisiness' that makes his work of contemporary interest. His statements against literary modernism from the 1950s are some of the most stringent and damning ever written, yet their complexity and argumentative strength demands the attention of a reader, even one lacking sympathy. -- Other Voices The first theorist to make a significant advance on Marx's theory of ideology while remaining true to the dialectical approach of Marx himself was the Hungarian Communist leader, theoretician and literary critic Georg Lukacs. - Ideology , David Hawkes One of the most salient early works of the century is Georg Luk a cs, Soul and Form . -- H Net Reviews Luk a cs could never be accused of being quiet, in fact it is just his ' noisiness ' that makes his work of contemporary interest. His statements against literary modernism from the 1950s are some of the most stringent and damning ever written, yet their complexity and argumentative strength demands the attention of a reader, even one lacking sympathy. -- Other Voices & quot; The first theorist to make a significant advance on Marx ' s theory of ideology while remaining true to the dialectical approach of Marx himself was the Hungarian Communist leader, theoretician and literary critic Georg Luk a cs. - Ideology, David Hawkes One of the most salient early works of the century is Georg Luka cs, Soul and Form. -- H Net Reviews Luka cs could never be accused of being quiet, in fact it is just his ' noisiness' that makes his work of contemporary interest. His statements against literary modernism from the 1950s are some of the most stringent and damning ever written, yet their complexity and argumentative strength demands the attention of a reader, even one lacking sympathy. -- Other Voices The first theorist to make a significant advance on Marx' s theory of ideology while remaining true to the dialectical approach of Marx himself was the Hungarian Communist leader, theoretician and literary critic Georg Luka cs. - Ideology, David Hawkes One of the most salient early works of the century is Georg Lukacs, Soul and Form. --H Net Reviews Lukacs could never be accused of being quiet, in fact it is just his 'noisiness' that makes his work of contemporary interest. His statements against literary modernism from the 1950s are some of the most stringent and damning ever written, yet their complexity and argumentative strength demands the attention of a reader, even one lacking sympathy. -- Other Voices The first theorist to make a significant advance on Marx's theory of ideology while remaining true to the dialectical approach of Marx himself was the Hungarian Communist leader, theoretician and literary critic Georg Lukacs. - Ideology, David Hawkes


One of the most salient early works of the century is Georg Lukacs, Soul and Form. --H Net Reviews <br> Lukacs could never be accused of being quiet, in fact it is just his 'noisiness' that makes his work of contemporary interest. His statements against literary modernism from the 1950s are some of the most stringent and damning ever written, yet their complexity and argumentative strength demands the attention of a reader, even one lacking sympathy. -- Other Voices<br> <br> The first theorist to make a significant advance on Marx's theory of ideology while remaining true to the dialectical approach of Marx himself was the Hungarian Communist leader, theoretician and literary critic Georg Lukacs. - Ideology , David Hawkes


One of the most salient early works of the century is Georg Lukacs, Soul and Form. --H Net Reviews Lukacs could never be accused of being quiet, in fact it is just his 'noisiness' that makes his work of contemporary interest. His statements against literary modernism from the 1950s are some of the most stringent and damning ever written, yet their complexity and argumentative strength demands the attention of a reader, even one lacking sympathy. -- Other Voices The first theorist to make a significant advance on Marx's theory of ideology while remaining true to the dialectical approach of Marx himself was the Hungarian Communist leader, theoretician and literary critic Georg Lukacs. - Ideology , David Hawkes


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Gyorgy Lukacs (1885-1971) is the author of Theory of the Novel, History and Class Consciousness, The Destruction of Reason, and The Ontology of Social Being, among many other works. John T. Sanders is professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of The Ethical Argument Against Government and coeditor of both Debating the State of Philosophy: Habermas, Rorty, and Kolakowski and For and Against the State: New Philosophical Readings. Katie Terezakis is assistant professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the author of The Immanent Word: The Turn to Language in German Philosophy, 1759-1801 and the editor of Engaging Agnes Heller: A Critical Companion. Judith Butler is the Maxine Eliot Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley and author of Gender Trouble, The Psychic Life of Power, and Subjects of Desire, among other works. Anna Bostock is also the translator of Lukacs's The Theory of the Novel.

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