Recovering the Later Georg Lukcs: A Study on the Unity of His Thought by Matthew

Description: Recovering the Later Georg Lukcs by Matthew J. Smetona "A recovery of Georg Lukâacss later thought on aesthetics, politics, and ontology and the first articulation of its unity, through the lens of the philosophers writing on totality and reification"-- FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description New resources for the critique of capitalism in culture from the late writings of Georg Lukacs, one of the first authors in the tradition of Western Marxism.New resources for the critique of capitalism in culture from the late writings of Georg Lukacs, one of the first authors in the tradition of Western Marxism.The Hungarian literary critic, philosopher, and Marxist social theorist Georg Lukacs is best known for his 1923 History and Class Consciousness, in which he offered an influential critique of reification from the standpoint of a dialectical conception of totality. While Lukacss early works have been central to the study of Marxist thought, his later works have often been dismissed as political accommodations to Stalinism. In this new study, Matthew Smetona argues for a revisionist interpretation of Lukacss later writings on topics as diverse as aesthetics, politics, and ontology.Smetona demonstrates that these writings reveal a methodological unity that follows directly from History and Class Consciousness, in which realism, in both literary and extraliterary senses, becomes the basis for the critique of reification. As Lukacs had demonstrated, reification is that process by which the social relations between persons seem to take on the character of a thing. Rooted in Marxs concept of commodity fetishism, the critique of reification proved, in Lukacss hands, to be a flexible tool capable of clarifying all manner of obfuscations that arise within the social relations that capitalism produces. To recover the later work of Lukacs is to open up new horizons for Marxist cultural criticism. Author Biography Matthew J. Smetona is Associate Professor of Instruction at Temple University. His work centers on critical theory, the history of political thought, and the history of the novel. He is the author of Recovering the Later Georg Lukacs- A Study on the Unity of His Thought (MIT Press). Table of Contents Acknowledgments ixAbbreviations xiIntroduction 11 Essays on Realism 1: 1931-1938 272 Essays on Realism 2: 1938-1957 733 From Balzac and Stendhal to Tolstoy and Gorky 1094 The Historical Novel 1355 On Particularity as the Category of Aesthetics 1 1636 On Particularity as the Category of Aesthetics 2 1877 Lenin, Tailism and the Dialectic, and Review Essays 2298 The Young Hegel 1 2679 The Young Hegel 2 297Conclusion: Reading Lukács Today 343Notes 357Bibliography 367Index 371 Details ISBN0262545373 Author Matthew J. Smetona Short Title Recovering the Later Georg Lukács Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 0262545373 ISBN-13 9780262545372 Format Paperback Subtitle A Study on the Unity of His Thought Publisher MIT Press Ltd Imprint MIT Press Country of Publication United States Pages 400 Publication Date 2023-04-25 AU Release Date 2023-04-25 NZ Release Date 2023-04-25 US Release Date 2023-04-25 UK Release Date 2023-04-25 DEWEY 199.439 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159234417;

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