Georg Lukács And His Generation 1900-1918
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A richly researched work of intellectual history, Georg Lukács and His Generation 1900–1918 chronicles the formative years of one of the twentieth century's most influential Marxist thinkers, situating him within the vibrant cultural and philosophical milieu of pre–World War I Budapest and Central Europe. Mary Gluck presents Lukács not as an isolated genius but as a central figure in a broader generational revolt against bourgeois positivism, tracing the networks of artists, critics, and intellectuals who collectively shaped a new modernist sensibility. With scholarly precision and narrative clarity, the work details how this circle grappled with questions of aesthetics, ethics, and the crisis of modern culture, drawing on German idealism, neo-Kantianism, and the emerging sociology of Georg Simmel and Max Weber. Gluck argues that the young Lukács's early essays and his landmark Soul and Form and The Theory of the Novel cannot be fully understood apart from this generational context of spiritual longing and cultural alienation. The result is an authoritative and elegantly written account that illuminates the deep roots of Lukács's later political and theoretical commitments.
Author: Mary Gluck
Format: Hardback
Published: 1985, Harvard University Press
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A richly researched work of intellectual history, Georg Lukács and His Generation 1900–1918 chronicles the formative years of one of the twentieth century's most influential Marxist thinkers, situating him within the vibrant cultural and philosophical milieu of pre–World War I Budapest and Central Europe. Mary Gluck presents Lukács not as an isolated genius but as a central figure in a broader generational revolt against bourgeois positivism, tracing the networks of artists, critics, and intellectuals who collectively shaped a new modernist sensibility. With scholarly precision and narrative clarity, the work details how this circle grappled with questions of aesthetics, ethics, and the crisis of modern culture, drawing on German idealism, neo-Kantianism, and the emerging sociology of Georg Simmel and Max Weber. Gluck argues that the young Lukács's early essays and his landmark Soul and Form and The Theory of the Novel cannot be fully understood apart from this generational context of spiritual longing and cultural alienation. The result is an authoritative and elegantly written account that illuminates the deep roots of Lukács's later political and theoretical commitments.