ISBN: 0262620278 9780262620277

Category: Philosophy / General

Page count: 160

Georg Lukács wrote <i>The Theory of the Novel</i> in 1914-1915, a period that also saw the conception of Rosa Luxemburg's <i>Spartacus Letters</i>, Lenin's <i>Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism</i>, Spengler's <i>Decline of the West</i>, and Ernst Bloch's <i>Spirit of Utopia</i>. 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.<p><i>The Theory of the Novel</i> marks the transition of the Hungarian philosopher from Kant to Hegel and was Lukács's last great work before he turned to Marxism-Leninism.</p>