The culture of people's democracy
Subtitle: Hungarian essays on literature, art, and democratic transition, 1945-1948
By: by György Lukács ; edited and translated by Tyrus Miller
Series: Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 -- v. 42
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9789004217270; 9789004234512
Subjects: Socialism and culture; Socialism and literature
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.