The Culture of People's Democracy
Hungarian Essays on Literature, Art, and Democratic Transition, 1945-1948
by György Lukács
Edited and translated by Tyrus Miller
Description
Engaged with questions of realist and modernist world-views in art, the relations of literary history to politics, and the role of cultural intellectuals in public life, this book of essays collects some of Lukács most influential writings. Translated into english for the time, these pieces offer a new look at one of the most significant Marxist thinkers of the twentieth-century.
Author Bios
György Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic.
Tyrus Miller: Ph.D. (1994), Stanford University, is Professor of Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is the author of books and articles on twentieth-century culture including Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts between the World Wars (University of California Press, 1999) and Singular Examples: Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde (Northwestern University Press, 2009).
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Publication date: April 1, 2014
Table of Contents
Editor’s Introduction
Acknowledgements
Literature and Democracy (1947)
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Democracy and Culture
Chapter 3: Lenin and the Question of Culture
Chapter 4: Literature and Democracy I
Chapter 5: Literature and Democracy II
Chapter 6: Populist Writers in the Balance
Chapter 7: Poetry of the Party
Chapter 8: Free or Directed Art?
Chapter 9: Against Old and New Legends
Chapter 10: The Unity of Hungarian Literature
Supplementary Related Essays, 1947–8
Chapter 11: The Tasks of Marxist Philosophy in New Democracy (1947)
Chapter 12: On Proletcult and Kitsch (1947)
Chapter 13: Hungarian Theories of Abstract Art (1947)
Chapter 14: The Hungarian Communist Party and Hungarian Culture (1948)
Chapter 15: The Revision of Hungarian Literary History (1948)
Historical and Biographical Glossary
References
Index
