Georg Lukcs and His Generation, 19001918 by Mary Gluck (English) Paperback Book

Description: Georg Lukcs and His Generation, 19001918 by Mary Gluck Mary Gluck introduces the reader to Lukacs, looking at his life among his friends, lovers and peers in the years before 1918, when he embraced communism at the age of 39. At the same time, she paints a portrait of an entire generation of Hungarian-Jewish intellectuals. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Mary Gluck introduces us to a Lukács we have never met. Here is Lukács among his friends, lovers, and peers in those important years before 1918, when he converted to Communism and Marxism at the age of thirty-nine.Georg Lukács claimed in later life that his early achievements lacked genuine coherence, being expressions of a vague "romantic anticapitalism" that only found resolution in his conversion to Marxism. By integrating Lukács with his early generational grouping and making expert use of a new treasure trove of documents from his early years, Gluck demonstrates that revolutionary socialism was not the inevitable outcome of Lukács early cultural radicalism, but only one of several possible options in the fragmented ideological climate of postwar Europe. From this new perspective, his pre-Marxist career takes on a cultural consistency that parallels and illuminates the inner strivings of the early modernists before the outbreak of World War I.Lukács emerges in this generational portrait not only as dramatic and psychologically complex but also as a representative figure whose inner dilemmas were echoed in the lives of many other radical intellectuals who came of age during the fin de siêcle period. Gluck situates Lukács within a fascinating network of friends and associates, the so-called Sunday Circle, which included such people as Karl Mannheim, Arnold Hauser, Bela Balázs, and Anna Lesznai. She adeptly anchors this group within the context of social and economic transformations in Hungary that brought new conservative, antisemitic movements to the fore and that marginalized the assimilated Jewish middle classes to which Lukács and most of his friends belonged. Retracing their collective hopes and values helps to clarify the far-ranging cultural crisis associated with the decline of nineteenth-century liberal culture and the emergence of the modernist sensibility. Author Biography Mary Gluck is Professor of History and Comparative Literature at Brown University. Table of Contents Introduction 1. The Sunday Circle: An Overview 2. The Historical Formation of a Generation 3. Liberal Fathers and Postliberal Children 4. The Crisis of Aestheticism 5. Toward a New Metaphysics 6. War and the Fragmentation of the Sunday Circle Bibliographical Note Notes Index Details ISBN0674348664 Author Mary Gluck Publisher Harvard University Press Language English ISBN-10 0674348664 ISBN-13 9780674348660 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1991 Imprint Harvard University Press Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass Country of Publication United States Illustrations 15 halftones Short Title GEORG LUKACS & HIS GENERATION Edition Description Revised Pages 296 DOI 10.1604/9780674348660 UK Release Date 1991-10-01 AU Release Date 1991-10-01 NZ Release Date 1991-10-01 US Release Date 1991-10-01 Publication Date 1991-10-01 DEWEY 335.43092 Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:14274539;

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