György Lukács

Culture of People's Democracy

Hungarian Essays on Literature, Art, and Democratic Transition, 1945-1948
Herausgeber: Miller, Tyrus / Übersetzer: Miller, Tyrus

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first volume in an effort to make available to an english speaking audience the full breadth of Luckács work

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781608463374
• ISBN-10: 1608463370
• Artikelnr.: 37727663

Autorenporträt

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)

Inhaltsangabe

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