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Since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the validity of Marxism and Marxist theory has undergone intense scrutiny both within and outside the academy. In LukÁcs After Communism, Eva L. Corredor conducts ten lively and engaging interviews with a diverse group of international scholars to address the continued relevance of GyÖrgy LukÁcs’s theories to the post-communist era. Corredor challenges these theoreticians, who each have been influenced by the man once considered the foremost theoretician of Marxist aesthetics, to reconsider the LukÁcsean legacy and to speculate on Marxist theory’s prospects in the coming decades.
The scholars featured in this collection-Etienne Balibar, Peter BÜrger, Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson, Jacques Leenhardt, Michael LÖwy, Roberto Schwarz, George Steiner, Susan Suleiman, and Cornel West-discuss a broad array of literary and political topics and present provocative views on gender, race, and economic relations. Corredor’s introduction provides a biographical synopsis of LukÁcs and discusses a number of his most important theoretical concepts. Maintaining the ongoing vitality of LukÁcs’s work, these interviews yield insights into LukÁcs as a philosopher and theorist, while offering anecdotes that capture him in his role as a teacher-mentor.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Eva L. Corredor is Professor of French and German at the U.S. Naval Academy. She is the author of GyÖrgy LukÁcs and the Literary Pretext.
Zusammenfassung
Features ten interviews with a diverse group of international scholars to address the continued relevance of Gy'rgy Lukacs's theories to the post-communist era. This book provides a biographical synopsis of Lukacs and discusses his important theoretical concepts. It is aimed at students and scholars of Marxism and critical theory.
