Lukács After Communism: Interviews with Contemporary Intellectuals (Post-Contemporary Interventions) - Softcover

Corredor, Eva L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082231763X ISBN 13: 9780822317630

Verlag: Duke University Press, 1997

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Book by Corredor Eva L

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"This is an important project. Lukacs remains a vital thinker, whom we must not dismiss but seek to understand more deeply in light of recent history. Corredor is a very skillful interviewer, with an obvious command of both the Lukacsean corpus and of the various theoretical and critical tendencies represented by her interviewees."-Neil Larsen, Northeastern University "These interviews have a spontaneity and range of inquiry that show a creative, synthetic, and first-rate intellect at work. Lukacs After Communism contributes significantly to the current critical reassessment of the Marxist tradition."-Barbara Foley, Rutgers University

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Since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the validity of Marxism and Marxist theory has undergone intense scrutiny both within and outside the academy. In Lukacs After Communism, Eva L. Corredor conducts ten lively and engaging interviews with a diverse group of international scholars to address the continued relevance of Gyoergy Lukacs's theories to the post-communist era. Corredor challenges these theoreticians, who each have been influenced by the man once considered the foremost theoretician of Marxist aesthetics, to reconsider the Lukacsean legacy and to speculate on Marxist theory's prospects in the coming decades. The scholars featured in this collection-Etienne Balibar, Peter Burger, Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson, Jacques Leenhardt, Michael Loewy, Roberto Schwarz, George Steiner, Susan Suleiman, and Cornel West-discuss a broad array of literary and political topics and present provocative views on gender, race, and economic relations. Corredor's introduction provides a biographical synopsis of Lukacs and discusses a number of his most important theoretical concepts. Maintaining the ongoing vitality of Lukacs's work, these interviews yield insights into Lukacs as a philosopher and theorist, while offering anecdotes that capture him in his role as a teacher-mentor.

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• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 082231763X
• ISBN 13: 9780822317630
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224