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Soul & form / György Lukács ; translated by Anna Bostock ; edited by John T. Sanders & Katie Terezakis ; with an introduction by Judith Butler

Author
Lukács, György, 1885-1971
Uniform Title
Lélek és a formák. English
Additional Titles
Soul and form
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, 2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 252 pages).
Additional Creators
Sanders, John T. and Terezakis, Katie, 1972-
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Language Note
Translated from the German.
Contents
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: Søren 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.
Summary
György Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of Plato, Kierkegaard, Novalis, Sterne, and others. By isolating the formal techniques these thinkers developed, Lukács laid the groundwork for his later work in Marxist aesthetics, a field that introduced the historical and political implications of text.For this centennial edition, John T. Sanders and.
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ISBN
9780231520690 (electronic bk.)
0231520697 (electronic bk.)
9780231149808 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0231149808 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780231149815 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0231149816 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1280599146
9781280599149
9786613628978
6613628972
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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