Georg Lukács and Critical Theory

Aesthetics, History, Utopia

Tyrus Miller (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2022
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-0241-2 (ISBN)

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This book examines the heritage of critical theory from the Hungarian Marxist philosopher Georg Lukács through the early Frankfurt School up to current issues of authoritarian politics and democratisation. Interweaving discussion of art and literature, utopian thought, and the dialectics of high art and mass culture, it offers unique perspectives on an interconnected group of left-wing intellectuals who sought to understand and resist their society's systemic impoverishment of thought and experience. Starting from Lukács’s reflections on art, utopia, and historical action, it progresses to the Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor W. Adorno’s analyses of music, media, avant-garde and kitsch. It concludes with discussions of erotic utopia, authoritarianism, postsocialism, and organised deceit in show trials – topics in which the legacy of Lukács and Frankfurt School critical theory continues to be relevant today.

Tyrus Miller is professor of Art History and English at University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Modernism and the Frankfurt School (EUP, 2014); Singular Examples: Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde (Northwestern University Press, 2009); Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars (University of California Press, 1999). He edited the (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and was editor and translator of Georg Lukács’s post-World War II essays in Hungarian, The Culture of People’s Democracy: Hungarian Essays on Literature, Art, and Democratic Transition, 1945-1948 (Brill, 2013).

Acknowledgements

IntroductionChapter 1: Georg Lukács and Critical Theory: The Long Goodbye
Georg LukácsChapter 2: Matthew, Mark, Lukács, and Bloch: From Aesthetic Utopianism to Religious Messianism Chapter 3: Lukács's Theatres of History: Drama, Action, and Historical AgencyChapter 4: The Non-Contemporaneity of Lukács and Lukács: Cold War Contradictions and the Aesthetics of Visual Art
Theodor W. Adorno　Chapter 5: Adorno and/or Avantgarde: Looking Back at SurrealismChapter 6: Avantgarde and Kitsch, or, Teddy the Musical!Chapter 7: Remediating Opera: Media and Musical Drama in Adorno and Kluge
Critical TheoryChapter 8: Perversion and Utopia: Sade, Fourier, and Critical TheoryChapter 9: Interdisciplinary Legacies: Critical Theory and Authoritarian CultureChapter 10: Prophecies of Mass Deception: Dewey, Trotsky, and the Moscow Show-Trials
ConclusionChapter 11: Tell-Trials, or, Gyuri the Radio-Play

Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2022
Zusatzinfo	13 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-3995-0241-7 / 1399502417
ISBN-13	978-1-3995-0241-2 / 9781399502412
Zustand	Neuware