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The second volume in the Lukács library, collecting and translating for the first time previously unavailable pieces of the Hungarian philosopher’s works. How is it possible that works of art exist? How do we become receptive aesthetic subjects? The Specificity of the Aesthetic extends these fundamental ontological and phenomenological questions around which Lukács’s theory of art was oragnized. This late work of aesthetics seeks to solve a puzzle that neither philosophy nor socialist politics was able to: the fundamental ethical question of what individuals and humanity as a whole ought to do. Art offers Lukács the already-existing means through which the damaged edifice of Marxism might be reconstructed on a durable basis on which to rest the philosophy, politics, and ethics of a non-Soviet-style Marxism.

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Author:   György Lukács ,  Erik M. Bachman ,  Tyrus Miller ,  Tyrus Miller
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
ISBN:  

9798888902097

Pages:   822
Publication Date:   02 April 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Preface 2–21 Chapter 1 Issues of Reflection in Everyday Life 22–115 Chapter 2 The Disanthropomorphisation of Reflection in Science 116–173 Chapter 3 Preliminary Issues of the Disentanglement of Art from Everyday Life as a Matter of Principle 174–213 Chapter 4 The Abstract Forms of the Aesthetic Reflection of Reality 214–301 Chapter 5 Issues of Mimesis I: The Coming into Being of Aesthetic Reflection 302–380 Chapter 6 Issues of Mimesis II: The Path to the Worldedness of Art 381–461 Chapter 7 Issues of Mimesis III: The Path of the Subject to Aesthetic Reflection 462–537 Chapter 8 Issues of Mimesis IV: The World Proper to Works of Art 538–607 Chapter 9 Issues of Mimesis V: The Defetishising Mission of Art 608–679 Chapter 10 Issues of Mimesis VI: Universal Features of the Subject-Object Relationship in Aesthetics 680–746

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György Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic. Erik M. Bachman is a Lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is author of Literary Obscenities: U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism, and he has also published numerous essays on modernism, film, and Lukács. Tyrus Miller is the Dean of the School of Humanities at the University of California at Irvine. He has published and edited many notable monographs and essays on modernism, critical theory, and the avant-garde.

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