The Lukacs Reader

One of the greatest Marxist theorists of his generation, Georg Lukacs was a prolific writer of remarkably catholic, if moralistic, tastes. In The Lukacs Reader , his biographer Arpad Kadarkay represents the great range and variety of Lukacs's output. The reader includes, in original translations, and with introductory essays, Lukacs on: Kierkegaard, Shakespeare, Ford, Strindberg, Ibsen, Wilde, Shaw, Gaughin, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. Also collected are: the autobiographical essay 'On the Poverty of Spirit', material from Lukacs's diary, and such key articles as: 'Aesthetic Culture', 'The Ideology of Modernism', 'Bolshevism as an Ethical Problem', and 'Class Consciousness'. What emerges is a figure very much at the centre of European thought whose value to modern culture and philosophy differs markedly from that which received opinion generally admits.

Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I: Essays in Autobiography:. 1. Kierkegaard. 2. Diary. 3. On the Poverty of Spirit. 4. My Socratic Mask. Part II: Drama and Tragedy:. 5. Shakespeare and Modern Drama. 6. John Ford. 7. August Strindberg. 8. Henrik Ibsen. 9. Peer Gynt. 10. Oscar Wilde. 11. Bernard Shaw. Part III: Art and Literature:. 12. Aesthetic Culture. 13. Paul Gaughin. 14. The Parting of the Ways. 15. Stavrogin's Confessions. 16. Integrated Civilisations. 17. The Ideology of Modernism. Part IV: Philosophy and Politics:. 18. Bolshevism as an Ethical Problem. 19. Class Consciousness. 20. Friedrich Nietzsche. 21. Martin Heidegger. Bibliography. Index.