{"product_id":"the-theory-of-the-novel-isbn-9780262620277","title":"The Theory of the Novel","description":"Georg Lukács wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Theory of the Novel\u003c\/i\u003e in 1914-1915, a period that also saw the conception of Rosa Luxemburg's \u003ci\u003eSpartacus Letters\u003c\/i\u003e, Lenin's \u003ci\u003eImperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e, Spengler's \u003ci\u003eDecline of the West\u003c\/i\u003e, and Ernst Bloch's \u003ci\u003eSpirit of Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Theory of the Novel\u003c\/i\u003e marks the transition of the Hungarian philosopher from Kant to Hegel and was Lukács's last great work before he turned to Marxism-Leninism.\u003c\/p\u003eThe first English translation of Lukács's early theoretical work on the novel. It begins with a comparison of the historical conditions that gave rise to the epic and the novel. In the age of the novel the once known unity between man and his world has been lost, and the hero has become an estranged seeker of the meaning of existence. Later, Lukács offers a typology of the novel based on whether the hero struggles for the realization of a meaningful idea, or withdraws from all action. The balance of these extremes forms the third possibility, and each type is exemplified. The book is not a study of artistic technicalities, but of man, history, and art tied closely in their development. It is written in a moving, lyrical style well rendered by the translation.—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e—Georg Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302482727141,"sku":"NP9780262620277","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262620277.jpg?v=1767741825","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-theory-of-the-novel-isbn-9780262620277","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}