Gyorgy Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of Plato, Kierkegaard, Novalis, Sterne, and others. By isolating the formal techniques these thinkers ..

Features the text in the great controversies over literature and art between thinkers who have become giants of 20th-century philosophy.

Part of Radical Thinkers series, this work presents key texts by philosophers and thinkers. It offers an account of Leninism.

Gyorgy Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of Plato, Kierkegaard, Novalis, Sterne, and others. By isolating the formal techniques these thinkers ..

Deals with German realists in the 19th century and includes chapters on Heinrich von Kleist, Eichendorff, Georg Buchner, Heinrich Heine, Gottfried Keller and Wilhelm Raabe. This is the first English edition.