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Soul and Form
Georg Lukacs
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Description for Soul and Form
Hardback. Editor(s): Sanders, John T.; Terezakis, Katie. Translator(s): Bostock, Anna. Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DV; HPD; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Gyorgy Lukacs 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, Lukacs 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 Katie Terezakis add a dialogue entitled "On Poverty of Spirit," which ... Read more
Gyorgy Lukacs 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, Lukacs 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 Katie Terezakis add a dialogue entitled "On Poverty of Spirit," which ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Series
Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231149808
SKU
V9780231149808
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About Georg Lukacs
Gyorgy Lukacs (1885-1971) is the author of Theory of the Novel, History and Class Consciousness, The Destruction of Reason, and The Ontology of Social Being, among many other works. John T. Sanders is professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of The Ethical Argument Against Government and coeditor of both Debating the ... Read more
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