Culture Of People's Democracy, The: Hungarian Essays On Literature, Art, And Democratic Transition, 1945-1948 Historical Materialism, Volume 42
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2014
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9781608463374
Publisert
2014-04-01
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Haymarket Books
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493 gr
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229 mm
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152 mm
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01, G, 01
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Engelsk
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Heftet
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322
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György Lukács, 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)
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 Lukacs' most influential writings. Translated into English for the first time, these pieces offer a new look at one of the most significant Marxist thinkers of the 20th century.
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The first volume in an effort to make available to an english speaking audience the full breadth of Luckács work
Editor’s IntroductionAcknowledgementsLiterature and Democracy (1947)Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Democracy and CultureChapter 3: Lenin and the Question of CultureChapter 4: Literature and Democracy IChapter 5: Literature and Democracy IIChapter 6: Populist Writers in the BalanceChapter 7: Poetry of the PartyChapter 8: Free or Directed Art?Chapter 9: Against Old and New LegendsChapter 10: The Unity of Hungarian LiteratureSupplementary Related Essays, 1947–8Chapter 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 GlossaryReferencesIndex
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More than twenty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of Marxism as a (supposed) state ideology, this peer-reviewed book series attempts to meet the need for a serious and long-term Marxist book publishing program by releasing original monographs, newly translated texts, and reprints of "classics."
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781608463374
Publisert
2014-04-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Haymarket Books
Vekt
493 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
322
Forfatter
Oversetter
Redaktør
Om bidragsyterne
György Lukács, 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)