This article explores the unique status accorded to aesthetics in György Lukács’s work, with particular focus on his Heidelberg writings of the 1910s, and their thematic echoes in Lukács’s late Aesthetics, straddling the shift in Lukács’s philosophical framework from neo-Kantianism and Weberianism to Hegelian Marxism. It suggests that these writings, discovered after Lukács’s death and still marginal to scholarship on the Hungarian thinker, provide a singular illumination on many of the leitmotivs of Lukács’s oeuvre. In particular, the essay considers the shapes taken in these early writings by the subject-object dialectic and the concept of form, as well as the foreshadowings of Lukács’s theories of ideology and standpoint.
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Lukács 1969, pp. 17–106. For Lukács on Schiller, see also ‘The Correspondence between Schiller and Goethe’ and ‘Schiller’s Theory of Modern Literature’, in Lukács 1968, pp. 68–100 and 101–35.
Lukács 1974, pp. 9–10.
Lukács 1974, pp. 15–16. Translations from the Heidelberg Philosophy of Art are by Tyrus Miller. A full translation of this work is in preparation for publication in the Brill/Historical Materialism Lukács Library.
Lukács 1974, p. 22.
Lukács 1974, p. 23.
Lukács 1974, p. 31.
Lukács 1974, pp. 31–2.
Lukács 1963a, p. 682. Translations from this volume are by Erik Bachman. A full translation of this work is in preparation for the Lukács Library.
Lukács 1963, pp. 845–6.
Lukács 1974, p. 95.
Lukács 1974, p. 101.
Cavell 1979.
Auerbach 2003.
Lukács 1974, p. 109. Translation by the author.
Lukács 1974, p. 118. Translation by the author.
Lukács 1974, p. 118.
Lukács 1974, p. 131.
Lukács 1974, p. 133.
Lukács 1963b, pp. 659, 681, 845.
Lukács 2010, pp. 111–27.
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This article explores the unique status accorded to aesthetics in György Lukács’s work, with particular focus on his Heidelberg writings of the 1910s, and their thematic echoes in Lukács’s late Aesthetics, straddling the shift in Lukács’s philosophical framework from neo-Kantianism and Weberianism to Hegelian Marxism. It suggests that these writings, discovered after Lukács’s death and still marginal to scholarship on the Hungarian thinker, provide a singular illumination on many of the leitmotivs of Lukács’s oeuvre. In particular, the essay considers the shapes taken in these early writings by the subject-object dialectic and the concept of form, as well as the foreshadowings of Lukács’s theories of ideology and standpoint.
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PDF Views & Downloads | 2412 | 2229 | 3 |