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The Culture of People's Democracy: Hungarian Essays on Literature, Art, and Democratic Transition, 1945-1948: 42/1
Author(s): György Lukács (Author), Tyrus Miller
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 1 Nov. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 356 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004217274
- ISBN-13: 9789004217270
Book Description
When the Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic György Lukács returned to Hungary from Moscow after World War II, he engaged in a highly active phase of writing and speaking about the democratic culture needed to exorcise the remnants of fascism and to create the conditions for the advance of socialism in Central Europe. His essays of the period, including the influential volume Literature and Democracy, appear here for the first time in English translation. Engaged with questions of realist and modernist world-views in art, the relations of literary history to politics and social history, and the role of cultural intellectuals in public life, these essays offer a new look at one of the most influential Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century.
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About the Author
György Lukács, 1885-1971, was one of the twentieth century’s most influential Marxist philosophers and literary critics.
Tyrus Miller, Ph.D. (1994), Stanford University, is Professor of Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is the author of books and articles on twentieth-century culture including Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts between the World Wars (University of California Press, 1999) and Singular Examples: Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde (Northwestern University Press, 2009)
