Georg Lukacs Reconsidered: Critical Essays in Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics
Georg Lukács stands as a towering figure in the areas of critical theory, literary criticism, aesthetics, ethical theory and the philosophy of Marxism and German Idealism. Yet, despite his influence throughout the twentieth century, his contributions to the humanities and theoretical social sciences are marked by neglect. What has been lost is a crucial thinker in the tradition of critical theory, but also, by extension, a crucial set of ideas that can be used to shed new light on the major problems of contemporary society.
This book reconsiders Lukács' intellectual contributions in the light of recent intellectual developments in political theory, aesthetics, ethical theory, and social and cultural theory. An international team of contributors contend that Lukács' ideas and theoretical contributions have much to offer the theoretical paucity of the present. Ultimately the book reintegrates Lukács as a central thinker, not only in the tradition of critical theory, but also as a major theorist and critic of modernity, of capitalism, and of new trends in political theory, cultural criticism and legal theory.

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Georg Lukacs Reconsidered: Critical Essays in Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics
Georg Lukács stands as a towering figure in the areas of critical theory, literary criticism, aesthetics, ethical theory and the philosophy of Marxism and German Idealism. Yet, despite his influence throughout the twentieth century, his contributions to the humanities and theoretical social sciences are marked by neglect. What has been lost is a crucial thinker in the tradition of critical theory, but also, by extension, a crucial set of ideas that can be used to shed new light on the major problems of contemporary society.
This book reconsiders Lukács' intellectual contributions in the light of recent intellectual developments in political theory, aesthetics, ethical theory, and social and cultural theory. An international team of contributors contend that Lukács' ideas and theoretical contributions have much to offer the theoretical paucity of the present. Ultimately the book reintegrates Lukács as a central thinker, not only in the tradition of critical theory, but also as a major theorist and critic of modernity, of capitalism, and of new trends in political theory, cultural criticism and legal theory.

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Georg Lukacs Reconsidered: Critical Essays in Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics

Georg Lukacs Reconsidered: Critical Essays in Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics

by Michael J. Thompson (Editor)
Georg Lukacs Reconsidered: Critical Essays in Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics

Georg Lukacs Reconsidered: Critical Essays in Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics

by Michael J. Thompson (Editor)

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Georg Lukács stands as a towering figure in the areas of critical theory, literary criticism, aesthetics, ethical theory and the philosophy of Marxism and German Idealism. Yet, despite his influence throughout the twentieth century, his contributions to the humanities and theoretical social sciences are marked by neglect. What has been lost is a crucial thinker in the tradition of critical theory, but also, by extension, a crucial set of ideas that can be used to shed new light on the major problems of contemporary society.
This book reconsiders Lukács' intellectual contributions in the light of recent intellectual developments in political theory, aesthetics, ethical theory, and social and cultural theory. An international team of contributors contend that Lukács' ideas and theoretical contributions have much to offer the theoretical paucity of the present. Ultimately the book reintegrates Lukács as a central thinker, not only in the tradition of critical theory, but also as a major theorist and critic of modernity, of capitalism, and of new trends in political theory, cultural criticism and legal theory.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781441166944
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 02/10/2013
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Michael J. Thompson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at William Paterson University, USA. He is the author of The Politics of Inequality (Columbia University Press, 2007) and editor of Fleeing the City: Studies in the Culture and Politics of Antiurbanism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

Table of Contents

Part I: Lukács' Philosophical Legacy
1. Lukács's and the Idealist Legacy Stephen Eric Bronner
2. Lukács and Marx After Marxism Tom Rockmore
3. Rethinking Reification Timothy Hall
4. Chvostismus und Dialektik: Lukács' Reply to His Critics Michael Löwy
Part II: Extending Aesthetic Theory
5. A Post-Adornian Aesthetics Peter Uwe Hohendahl
6. The Development of the Novel Werner Jung
7. The Fight for Freedom of the Arts: Lukács on Dante and Goethe János Keleman
8. A Hegelian-Marxist Philosophy of Political Imagination Norman Fischer
Part III: Politics, Society and Critical Theory
9. Lukács' Concept of Time Nichole Shippen
10. Lukács' Ambivalent Jurisprudence Katie Terezakis
11. Back to History? Lukács and the Antimonies of Communicative Critical Theory Konstantinos Kavoulakos
12. Reification and the Progress of Technology Andrew Feenberg
13. Lukács and the Revival of Critical Theory: Reconsidering the Ontologie Michael J. Thompson
Bibliography
Index

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