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The Culture of People's Democracy: Hungarian Essays on Literature, Art, and Democratic Transition, 1945-1948 (Historical Materialism) - Softcover

Book 54 of 315: Historical Materialism

Lukács, György

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9781608463374: The Culture of People's Democracy: Hungarian Essays on Literature, Art, and Democratic Transition, 1945-1948 (Historical Materialism)

Synopsis

Engaged with questions of realist and modernist world-views in art, the relations of literary history to politics, and the role of cultural intellectuals in public life, this book of essays collects some of Lukács most influential writings. Translated into english for the time, these pieces offer a new look at one of the most significant Marxist thinkers of the twentieth-century.

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About the Authors

György Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic.



Tyrus Miller is the Dean of the School of Humanities at the University of California at Irvine. He has published and edited many notable monographs and essays on modernism, critical theory, and the avant-garde.

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