The end of the Soviet period; the vast expansion in the power and influence of capital; and recent developments in social and aesthetic theory; have made the work of Hungarian Marxist philosopher and social critic Georg Lukaacute;cs more vital than ever. The very innovations in literary method that; during the 80s and 90s; marginalized him in the West have now made possible new readings of Lukaacute;cs; less in thrall to the positions taken by Lukaacute;cs himself on political and aesthetic matters. What these developments amount to; this book argues; is an opportunity to liberate Lukaacute;csrsquo;s thought from its formal and historical limitations; a possibility that was always inherent in Lukaacute;csrsquo;s own thinking about the paradoxes of form. This collection brings together recent work on Lukaacute;cs from the fields of Philosophy; Social and Political Thought; Literary and Cultural Studies. Against the odds; Lukaacute;csrsquo;s thought has survived: as a critique of late capitalism; as a guide to the contradictions of modernity; and as a model for a temperament that refuses all accommodation with the way things are.
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