One of the greatest Marxist theorists of his generation, Georg Lukacs was a prolific writer of remarkably catholic, if moralistic, tastes. In
The Lukacs Reader
, his biographer Arpad Kadarkay represents the great range and variety of Lukacs's output. The reader includes, in original translations, and with introductory essays, Lukacs on: Kierkegaard, Shakespeare, Ford, Strindberg, Ibsen, Wilde, Shaw, Gaughin, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. Also collected are: the autobiographical essay 'On the Poverty of Spirit', material from Lukacs's diary, and such key articles as: 'Aesthetic Culture', 'The Ideology of Modernism', 'Bolshevism as an Ethical Problem', and 'Class Consciousness'. What emerges is a figure very much at the centre of European thought whose value to modern culture and philosophy differs markedly from that which received opinion generally admits.Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Part I: Essays in Autobiography:.
1. Kierkegaard.
2. Diary.
3. On the Poverty of Spirit.
4. My Socratic Mask.
Part II: Drama and Tragedy:.
5. Shakespeare and Modern Drama.
6. John Ford.
7. August Strindberg.
8. Henrik Ibsen.
9. Peer Gynt.
10. Oscar Wilde.
11. Bernard Shaw.
Part III: Art and Literature:.
12. Aesthetic Culture.
13. Paul Gaughin.
14. The Parting of the Ways.
15. Stavrogin's Confessions.
16. Integrated Civilisations.
17. The Ideology of Modernism.
Part IV: Philosophy and Politics:.
18. Bolshevism as an Ethical Problem.
19. Class Consciol³r
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