The culture of people's democracy [electronic resource] : Hungarian essays on literature, art, and democratic transition, 1945-1948 / by Gyorgy Lukacs ; edited and translated by Tyrus Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lukács, György, 1885-1971.

Series:

Historical Materialism Book Series 42.

Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; v. 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism and culture.

Socialism and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

1. Foreword to Literature and Democracy

2. Democracy and Culture

3. Lenin and the Question of Culture

4. Literature and Democracy I

5. Literature and Democracy II

6. Populist Writers in the Balance

7. Poetry of the Party

8. Free or Directed Art?

9. Against Old and New Legends

10. The Unity of Hungarian Literature

11. The Tasks of Marxist Philosophy in the New Democracy

12. On ‘Kitsch’ and ‘Proletcult’

13. Hungarian Theories of Abstract Art

14. The Hungarian Communist Party and Hungarian Culture

15. The Revision of Hungarian Literary History

Historical, Literary, and Biographical Glossary

References

Person Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-23451-9

OCLC:

851316148

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004234512 DOI