The culture of people’s democracy : Hungarian essays on literature, art, and democratic transition, 1945-1948

✍ Scribed by György Lukács. Edited, Tyrus Miller

• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 353
• Series: Historical materialism book series 42.; Lukács Library
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Editor's Introduction The Phantom of Liberty: György Lukács and the Culture of 'People's Democracy'
Acknowledgements
Literature and Democracy (1947)
Chapter One Foreword to Literature and Democracy
Chapter Two Democracy and Culture
Chapter Three Lenin and the Questions of Culture
Chapter Four Literature and Democracy I
Chapter Five Literature and Democracy II
Chapter Six Populist Writers in the Balance
Chapter Seven Poetry of the Party
Chapter Eight Free or Directed Art?
Chapter Nine Against Old and New Legends
Chapter Ten The Unity of Hungarian Literature. Supplementary Related Essays, 1947-8Chapter Eleven The Tasks of Marxist Philosophy in the New Democracy
Chapter Twelve On 'Kitsch' and 'Proletcult'
Chapter Thirteen Hungarian Theories of Abstract Art
Chapter Fourteen The Hungarian Communist Party and Hungarian Culture
Chapter Fifteen The Revision of Hungarian Literary History
Historical, Literary, and Biographical Glossary
References
Person Index
Subject Index.

✦ Subjects

Socialism and culture. Socialism and literature. PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.