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基本説明
For this centennial edition, the editors add a dialogue entitled "On Poverty of Spirit," which Lukács wrote at the time of Soul and Form, and an introduction by Judith Butler, which compares Lukács's key claims to his later work, along with subsequent movements in literary theory and criticism.
Full Description
Gyorgy 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, Lukacs 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 Lukacs wrote at the time of Soul and Form, and an introduction by Judith Butler, which compares Lukacs's key claims to his later work and subsequent movements in literary theory and criticism. In an afterword, Terezakis continues to trace the Lukacsian 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.
Contents
Preface Introduction Judith Butler 1. On the Nature and Form of the Essay: A Letter to Leo Popper 2. Platonism, Poetry and Form: Rudolf Kassner 3. The Foundering of Form Against Life: Soren Kierkegaard and Regine Olsen 4. On the Romantic Philosophy of Life: Novalis 5. The Bourgeois Way of Life and Art for Art's Sake: Theodor Storm 6. The New Solitude and Its Poetry: Stefan George 7. Longing and Form: Charles-Louis Philippe 8. The Moment and Form: Richard Beer-Hofmann 9. Richness, Chaos, and Form: A Dialogue Concerning Lawrence Sterne 10. The Metaphysics of Tragedy: Paul Ernst Sources and References On Poverty of Spirit: A Conversation and a Letter Afterword: The Legacy of Form Katie Terezakis Notes Index
