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Engaged with questions of realist and modernist world-views in art, the relations of literary history to politics, and the role of cultural intellectuals in public life, this book of essays collects some of Lukcs most influential writings. Translated into english for the time, these pieces offer a new look at one of the most significant Marxist thinkers of the twentieth-century.

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Author:   Gyorgy Lukacs ,  Tyrus Miller ,  Tyrus Miller
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
Volume:   No. 42
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.493kg
ISBN:  

9781608463374

ISBN 10:   1608463370
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   01 April 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Editor’s Introduction Acknowledgements Literature and Democracy (1947) Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Democracy and Culture Chapter 3: Lenin and the Question of Culture Chapter 4: Literature and Democracy I Chapter 5: Literature and Democracy II Chapter 6: Populist Writers in the Balance Chapter 7: Poetry of the Party Chapter 8: Free or Directed Art? Chapter 9: Against Old and New Legends Chapter 10: The Unity of Hungarian Literature Supplementary Related Essays, 1947–8 Chapter 11: The Tasks of Marxist Philosophy in New Democracy (1947) Chapter 12: On Proletcult and Kitsch (1947) Chapter 13: Hungarian Theories of Abstract Art (1947) Chapter 14: The Hungarian Communist Party and Hungarian Culture (1948) Chapter 15: The Revision of Hungarian Literary History (1948) Historical and Biographical Glossary References Index

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Gyrgy Lukcs, 1885-1971, was one of the twentieth century's most influential Marxist philosophers and literary critics. Tyrus Miller: Ph.D. (1994), Stanford University, is Professor of Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is the author of books and articles on twentieth-century culture including Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts between the World Wars (University of California Press, 1999) and Singular Examples: Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde (Northwestern University Press, 2009)

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