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Book SynopsisEngaged 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.
Table of ContentsEditor’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
