{"product_id":"recovering-the-later-georg-lukcs-isbn-9780262545372","title":"Recovering the Later Georg Lukács","description":"\u003cb\u003eNew resources for the critique of capitalism in culture from the late writings of Georg Lukács, one of the first authors in the tradition of Western Marxism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Hungarian literary critic, philosopher, and Marxist social theorist Georg Lukács is best known for his 1923 History and Class Consciousness, in which he offered an influential critique of reification from the standpoint of a dialectical conception of totality. While Lukács’s early works have been central to the study of Marxist thought, his later works have often been dismissed as political accommodations to Stalinism. In this new study, Matthew Smetona argues for a revisionist interpretation of Lukács’s later writings on topics as diverse as aesthetics, politics, and ontology. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSmetona demonstrates that these writings reveal a methodological unity that follows directly from History and Class Consciousness, in which realism, in both literary and extraliterary senses, becomes the basis for the critique of reification. As Lukács had demonstrated, reification is that process by which the social relations between persons seem to take on the character of a thing. Rooted in Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism, the critique of reification proved, in Lukács’s hands, to be a flexible tool capable of clarifying all manner of obfuscations that arise within the social relations that capitalism produces. To recover the later work of Lukács is to open up new horizons for Marxist cultural criticism.Acknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations xi\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e1 Essays on Realism 1: 1931-1938 27\u003cbr\u003e2 Essays on Realism 2: 1938-1957 73\u003cbr\u003e3 From Balzac and Stendhal to Tolstoy and Gorky 109\u003cbr\u003e4 \u003ci\u003eThe Historical Novel \u003c\/i\u003e135\u003cbr\u003e5 \u003ci\u003eOn Particularity as the Category of Aesthetics \u003c\/i\u003e1 163\u003cbr\u003e6 \u003ci\u003eOn Particularity as the Category of Aesthetics \u003c\/i\u003e2 187\u003cbr\u003e7 \u003ci\u003eLenin, Tailism and the Dialectic, \u003c\/i\u003eand Review Essays 229\u003cbr\u003e8 \u003ci\u003eThe Young Hegel \u003c\/i\u003e1 267\u003cbr\u003e9 \u003ci\u003eThe Young Hegel \u003c\/i\u003e2 297\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Reading Lukács Today 343\u003cbr\u003eNotes 357\u003cbr\u003eBibliography 367\u003cbr\u003eIndex 371“Shedding valuable light on Lukács’s often-neglected later works and arguing persuasively for the unity of his thought, Smetona’s study is an essential addition to the scholarly literature.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Richard Westerman, University of Alberta; author of \u003ci\u003eLukács’s Phenomenology of Capitalism: Reification Revalued\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Through his bold ‘recovery’ of Lukács’s decades of writings on literature, philosophy and politics after \u003ci\u003eHistory and Class Consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e, Smetona fundamentally renews our understanding of this key twentieth-century Marxist thinker.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tyrus Miller, University of California, Irvine; author of \u003ci\u003eGeorg Lukács and Critical Theory: Aesthetics, History, Utopia and Modernism and the Frankfurt School\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eMatthew J. Smetona is Associate Professor of Instruction at Temple University. His work centers on critical theory, the history of political thought, and the history of the novel. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eRecovering the Later Georg Lukács: A Study on the Unity of His Thought\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press).","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303670796517,"sku":"NP9780262545372","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262545372.jpg?v=1767735528","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/recovering-the-later-georg-lukcs-isbn-9780262545372","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}