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Georg Lukács reconsidered : critical essays in politics, philosophy and aesthetics / edited by Michael J. Thompson

Published
London ; New York : Continuum, [2011]
Copyright Date
©2011
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 253 pages)
Additional Creators
Thompson, Michael J., 1973-
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English.
Contents
Contributors; Introduction: Recovering Lukács' Relevance for the Present; Part I: Lukács' Philosophical Legacy; Chapter 1 Lukács and the Dialectic: Contributions to a Theory of Practice; Chapter 2 Lukács and the Recovery of Marx after Marxism; Chapter 3 Georg Lukács' Destruction of Reason; Chapter 4 Revolutionary Dialectics against "Tailism": Lukács' Answer to the Criticisms of History and Class Consciousness; Part II: Extending Aesthetic Theory; Chapter 5 The Theory of the Novel and the Concept of Realism in Lukács and Adorno., Chapter 6 Time-The Corrupting Principle: A Short Apology for Georg Lukács' Poetics of the NovelChapter 7 Art's Struggle for Freedom: Lukács, the Literary Historian; Chapter 8 The Modern Meaning of Georg Lukács' Reconstruction of Walter Scott's Novels of Premodern Political Ethics; Part III: Perspectives on Critical Theory; Chapter 9 Back to History? Reinterpreting Lukács' Early Marxist Work in Light of the Antinomies of Contemporary Critical Theory; Chapter 10 Reification and its Critics., and Chapter 11 Returning to Lukács: Honneth's Critical Reconstruction of Lukács' Concepts of Reification and PraxisChapter 12 Living Form and Living Criticism; Chapter 13 Ontology and Totality: Reconstructing Lukács' Concept of Critical Theory; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; W.
Summary
Georg Lukács stands as a towering figure in the areas of critical theory, literary criticism, aesthetics, ethical theory and the philosophy of Marxism and German Idealism. Yet, despite his influence throughout the twentieth century, his contributions to the humanities and theoretical social sciences are marked by neglect. What has been lost is a crucial thinker in the tradition of critical theory, but also, by extension, a crucial set of ideas that can be used to shed new light on the major problems of contemporary society. This book reconsiders Lukács' intellectual contributions in the light.
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9781441197634 (electronic bk.)
144119763X (electronic bk.)
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9781283207959
1472546563
9781472546562
9786613207951
6613207950
9781441108760
1441108769
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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