The Lukacs Reader: A Survey

By Arpad Kadarkay and Georgy Lukacs

Book Overview

One of the greatest Marxist theorists of his generation, Georg Lukacs was a prolific writer of remarkably catholic, if moralistic, tastes. In The Lukacs Reader , his biographer Arpad Kadarkay represents the great range and variety of Lukacs's output. The reader includes, in original translations, and with introductory essays, Lukacs on: Kierkegaard, Shakespeare, Ford, Strindberg, Ibsen, Wilde, Shaw, Gaughin, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. Also collected are: the autobiographical essay 'On the Poverty of Spirit', material from Lukacs's diary, and such key articles as: 'Aesthetic Culture', 'The Ideology of Modernism', 'Bolshevism as an Ethical Problem', and 'Class Consciousness'. What emerges is a figure very much at the centre of European thought whose value to modern culture and philosophy differs markedly from that which received opinion generally admits.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155786571X
• ISBN13: 9781557865717
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"