Title: The culture of people's democracy : Hungarian essays on literature, art, and democratic transition, 1945-1948 /
Authors: Lukács, György, 1885-1971
Publisher: Brill,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Socialism and culture.; Socialism and literature.
Abstract: "When the Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic György Lukács returned to Hungary from Moscow after World War II, he engaged in a highly active phase of writing and speaking about the democratic culture needed to exorcise the remnants of fascism and to create the conditions for the advance of socialism in Central Europe. His essays of the period, including the influential volume Literature and Democracy, appear here for the first time in English translation. Engaged with questions of realist and modernist world-views in art, the relations of literary history to politics and social history, and the role of cultural intellectuals in public life, these essays offer a new look at one of the most influential Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century."--Publisher's website.
Contents: Literature and Democracy (1947). Introduction ; Democracy and Culture ; Lenin and the Question of Culture ; Literature and Democracy I ; Literature and Democracy II ; Populist Writers in the Balance ; Poetry of the Party ; Free or Directed Art? ; Against Old and New Legends ; The Unity of Hungarian Literature. -- Supplementary Related Essays, 1947-8. The Tasks of Marxist Philosophy in New Democracy (1947) ; On Proletcult and Kitsch (1947) ; Hungarian Theories of Abstract Art (1947) ; The Hungarian Communist Party and Hungarian Culture (1948) ; The Revision of Hungarian Literary History (1948).