Description: Soul and Form, Paperback by Lukacs, Gyorgy; Sanders, John T. (EDT); Terezakis, Katie (EDT); Butler, Judith (INT), ISBN 0231149816, ISBN-13 9780231149815, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Gyrgy Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of Plato, Kierkegaard, Novalis, Sterne, and others. By isolating the formal techniques these thinkers developed, Lukcs laid the groundwork for his later work in Marxist aesthetics, a field that introduced the historical and political implications of text.
For this centennial edition, John T. Sanders and Katie Terezakis add a dialogue entitled "On Poverty of Spirit," which Lukcs wrote at the time of Soul and Form, and an introduction by Judith Butler, which compares Lukcss key claims to his later work and subsequent movements in literary theory and criticism. In an afterword, Terezakis continues to trace the Lukcsian system within his writing and other fields. These essays explore problems of alienation and isolation and the curative quality of aesthetic form, which communicates both individuality and a shared human condition. They investigate the elements that give rise to form, the history that form implies, and the historicity that form embodies. Taken together, they showcase the breakdown, in modern times, of an objective aesthetics, and the rise of a new art born from lived experience.
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Book Title: Soul and Form
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Name: Soul and Form
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2010
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Movements / Deconstruction, European / General, Aesthetics, Semiotics & Theory, Modern / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 13.9 Oz
Author: Georg Lukács
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Item Length: 9 in
Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback