About the author georg lukacs was a hungarian marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic. Pdf annotations on georg lukacss theory of the novel. We have already pointed out that the author of the theory of the novel had become a hegelian. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. The rise of skywalker fan theories that are strong with the force duration. Pdf annotations on georg lukacss hegelian study the theory of the novel.
Georg lukacs sketch taken from hegel made easy of intellectual looking east. The older leading representatives of the intellectual sciences method based themselves on kantian philosophy and were not free from traces of positivism. Lukacs is best known for his preworld war ii writings in literary theory, aesthetic theory and marxist philosophy. The personality which one sells is not a free human being, but a. Key theories of georg lukacs literary theory and criticism.
He developed the theory of reification, and contributed to marxist theory with developments of karl marxs theory of class consciousness. The theory of the novel marks the transition of the hungarian philosopher from kant to hegel and was lukacs last great work before he turned to marxismleninism. A historicophilosophical essay on the forms of great epic literature. The theory of the novel presents a somewhat troubling argument, but lukacs reasons for rejecting the book do not entirely reflect my own concerns. From a course on marxist literary theory at brown university 1988. Georg gyorgy lukacs stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. The essay argues that lukacss model of reflection is not couched in stalins socialist realism, a theory that assumes the transparency between aesthetic forms and reality, but rather raises. Georg lukacs wrote the theory of the novel in 19141915, a period that also saw the conception of rosa. Such was the mood in which the first draft of the theory of the novel was written.
Hegelian categories, the premarxist georg lukacs, in the theory of the novel 1920. Annotations on georg lukacss hegelian study the theory of the novel, prior to his marxist developmentmainly on the contrast between the worldviews of the novel and the epic. It focuses on the time period 19181929 of his life. Gyorgy lukacs born gyorgy bernat lowinger, was a hungarian marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic. The georg lukacs internet archive marxists internet archive. It is a pessimistic work, focusing on the way in which the novel deals with the meaninglessness of the contemporary social world. But the author of the theory of the novel was not an exclusive or orthodox hegelian. Georg gyorgy lukacs 18851971 was a literary theorist and philosopher who is widely viewed as one of the founders of western marxism. The theory of the novel the forms of great epic literature examined in relation to whether the general civilisation of the time is an integrated or a problematic one. Encyclopedia britannica defines the novel as a genre of fiction i. Lukacss the theory of the novel 1916, written during the final years before the first world war, is an approach to literature that is deeply indebted to hegel, and especially hegels aesthetics. Goethes and schillers analyses, certain conceptions of goethes in his late period e.
Lukacs has several other criticisms, generally of the kind one would expect to be made of a marxist materialist against any argument built on hegelian and weberian premises. Like many of lukacss early essays, it is a radical critique of bourgeois culture and stems from a specific. He was one of the founders of western marxism, an interpretive tradition that departed from the marxist ideological orthodoxy of the soviet union. George lukacs, the few obscure books of his youth, written shortly before and after the.
1510 1402 965 943 333 268 374 1532 978 1061 495 1345 1395 1257 658 1268 1007 238 52 1173 745 1130 286 1348 1330 843 42 974 917 840