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Book SynopsisOne 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.Trade Review"This collection of essays emphasizes the romantic. It includes an early essay in which Lukacs compares the strangest of his own love affairs with Kerkegaard's, as well as essays on Stridberg, Ibsen, Wilde and Shaw."
Leslie Armour, Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface.
Acknowledgements.
Part I: Essays in Autobiography:.
1. Kierkegaard.
2. Diary.
3. On the Poverty of Spirit.
4. My Socratic Mask.
Part II: Drama and Tragedy:.
5. Shakespeare and Modern Drama.
6. John Ford.
7. August Strindberg.
8. Henrik Ibsen.
9. Peer Gynt.
10. Oscar Wilde.
11. Bernard Shaw.
Part III: Art and Literature:.
12. Aesthetic Culture.
13. Paul Gaughin.
14. The Parting of the Ways.
15. Stavrogin's Confessions.
16. Integrated Civilisations.
17. The Ideology of Modernism.
Part IV: Philosophy and Politics:.
18. Bolshevism as an Ethical Problem.
19. Class Consciousness.
20. Friedrich Nietzsche.
21. Martin Heidegger.
Bibliography.
Index.
