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The Culture of People's Democracy: Hungarian Essays on Literature, Art, and Democratic Transition, 1945-1948
Author(s): György Lukács (Author), Tyrus Miller (Translator)
- Publisher: Haymarket Books
- Publication Date: April 1, 2014
- Language: English
- Print length: 374 pages
- ISBN-10: 1608463370
- ISBN-13: 9781608463374
Book Description
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 Author
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.
