György Lukács 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...
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György Lukács 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, Lukács 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
Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
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CONTENTS; PREFACE vii; INTRODUCTION Judith Butler 1; 1. ON THE NATURE AND FORM OF THE ESSAY: A Letter to Leo Popper 16; 2. PLATONISM, POETRY AND FORM Rudolf Kassner 35; 3. THE FOUNDERING OF FORM AGAINST LIFE Søren Kierkegaard and Regine Olsen 44; 4. ON THE ROMANTIC PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE Novalis 59; 5. THE BOURGEOIS WAY OF LIFE AND ART FOR ART'S SAKE Theodor Storm 73; 6. THE NEW SOLITUDE AND ITS POETRY Stefan George 98; 7. LONGING AND FORM Charles-Louis Philippe 111; 8. THE MOMENT AND FORM Richard Beer-Hofmann 128; 9. RICHNESS, CHAOS, AND FORM A Dialogue Concerning Laurence Sterne 145
10. THE METAPHYSICS OF TRAGEDY Paul Ernst 175SOURCES AND REFERENCES 199; ON POVERTY OF SPIRIT A Conversation and a Letter 201; AFTERWORD The Legacy of Form Katie Terezakis 215; NOTES 235; INDEX 241;
