The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic LiteratureGeorg Lukács wrote The Theory of the Novel in 1914-1915, a period that also saw the conception of Rosa Luxemburg's Spartacus Letters, Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Spengler's Decline of the West, and Ernst Bloch's Spirit of Utopia. Like many of Lukács's early essays, it is a radical critique of bourgeois culture and stems from a specific Central European philosophy of life and tradition of dialectical idealism whose originators include Kant, Hegel, Novalis, Marx, Kierkegaard, Simmel, Weber, and Husserl. The Theory of the Novel marks the transition of the Hungarian philosopher from Kant to Hegel and was Lukács's last great work before he turned to Marxism-Leninism. |
Contents
Preface II | 11 |
Integrated civilisations | 29 |
The problems of a philosophy of the history of forms | 40 |
The epic and the novel | 56 |
The inner form of the novel | 70 |
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The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-philosophical Essay on the Forms of ... Georg Lukacs,György Lukács,Anna Bostock No preview available - 1971 |
The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-philosophical Essay on the Forms of ... Georg Lukacs No preview available - 1974 |
The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-philosophical Essay on the Forms of ... György Lukács No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
abstract idealism achieved action adventures aesthetic affirmation artistic attained attitude become characters chivalrous novel completely concept concrete created creative danger Dante demonic destiny distance Don Quixote drama element empirical epic forms epic literature essence essential ethical everything existence fact form-giving formal Georg Lukács given form Goethe Greek Hans im Glück Hegel Hegelian hero hero's heterogeneous historical historico historico-philosophical human idea immanence of meaning individual inessential inner intellectual sciences interiority irony isolated lived experience loneliness lyric poetry merely metaphysical mood nature never normative Novalis novel form novel of disillusionment object objectivation Oblomov organic paradoxical philosophy Pontoppidan's positive possible priori problem problematic psychological purely realised reality reflexion relationship revealed Romantic Romanticism rounded sensuous significance social soul sphere structure struggle substance substratum Theory Thomas Münzer Tolstoy Tolstoy's totality tragedy tragic trans transcendent transcendental transformed true ultimate unity utopian verse whole Wilhelm Meister Wolfram von Eschenbach