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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 introduce…

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

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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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Columbia University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (ix, 252 pages).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780231520690, 0231520697, 1280599146, 9781280599149, 9786613628978, 6613628972
oclc:ocn787844827
LC Classification:PN45
Dewey Decimal:801/.93

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.

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Criticism, interpretation, etc Critique marxiste LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory Literature -- Aesthetics Literature, Modern -- History and criti… Littérature -- Esthétique Marxist criticism PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics