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Tyrus Miller
This book examines the heritage of critical theory from the Hungarian Marxist philosopher Georg Lukcs through the early Frankfurt School up to current issues of authoritarian politics and democratisation.
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Ales Erjavec
This volume consists of selected essays on the art and aesthetics of the avantgarde, contemporary art, and postsocialist culture by the internationally renowned Slovenian philosopher and art theorist Ales Erjavec.
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Gyrgy Lukcs
The second volume in the Lukcs library, collecting and translating for the first time previously unavailable pieces of the Hungarian philosopher's works.
How is it possible that works of art…
The concept of time-image, this book argues, holds broad potential for the historical interpretation of cultural and aesthetic works. Many works that would not ordinarily be thought to be historical…
An introduction to the Frankfurt School’s important attempts to relate the social, political, and philosophical conditions of modernity to innovations in 20th-century art, literature, and culture. It introduces major figures…
This book examines the heritage of critical theory from the Hungarian Marxist philosopher Georg Lukacs through the early Frankfurt School up to current issues of authoritarian politics and democratisation.
This Companion offers fresh insight into the controversial works, both literary and visual, of Wyndham Lewis. Written by a team of leading experts, this book examines Lewis’s work in light…
Tyrus Miller’s book offers readers a focused introduction to the Frankfurt School’s important attempts to relate the social, political, and philosophical conditions of modernity to innovations in twentieth-century art, literature…
A study of early 20th-century literary and artistic culture. The text focuses on the turbulent later years of the 1920s and 1930s, tracking the dissolution of modernism in the interwar…
Gyoergy Lukacs
The essays of Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic Gyoergy Lukacs from 1945 to 1948, including the influential volume Literature and Democracy, are presented here for the first time in…
Gyorgy Lukacs
The first volume in an effort to make available to an English-speaking audience the full breadth of Luckacs work.
Georg Lukacs's The Specificity of the Aesthetic is both a return to first principles and an attempt to reconstruct the philosophical anthropology and philosophy of history underlying Marxism.
Focuses on the integral, interdisciplinary, and intermedial ‘compositions’ - verbal, visual, musical, theatrical, and cinematic - of the avant-gardes in the period following World War II. This book also considers…
