The theory of the novel: a historico-philosophical essay on the forms of great epic literature;

By: Lukacs, GeorgMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London, The Mit Press 1971Description: 160 pagesISBN: 9780262120487; 0262120488 Subject(s): Fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc | Epic literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etcDDC classification: 823.01
Contents:
Integrated civilisations -- The problems of a philosophy of the history of forms -- The epic and the novel -- The inner form of the novel -- The historico-philosophical conditioning of the novel and its significance -- Abstract idealism -- The romanticism of disillusionment -- Wilhelm Meister's years of apprenticeship as an attempted synthesis -- Tolstoy and the attempt to go beyond the social forms of life.
Summary: Georg 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. -- Book Description.
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Integrated civilisations --
The problems of a philosophy of the history of forms --
The epic and the novel --
The inner form of the novel --
The historico-philosophical conditioning of the novel and its significance --
Abstract idealism --
The romanticism of disillusionment --
Wilhelm Meister's years of apprenticeship as an attempted synthesis --
Tolstoy and the attempt to go beyond the social forms of life.


Georg 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. -- Book Description.

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