The specificity of the aesthetic

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The specificity of the aesthetic

by Georg Lukács ; translated and edited by Erik M. Bachman ; with assistance from Tyrus Miller

(Historical materialism book series, v. 276 . Lukács library / edited by Erik M. Bachman, Tyrus Miller ; v. 2)

Brill, c2023

  • v. 1 : hardback

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [747]-763) and index

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How is it possible that works of art exist? How do we become receptive aesthetic subjects? The Specificity of the Aesthetic extends these fundamental ontological and phenomenological questions around which Georg Lukács’s theory of art was organised. This late work of aesthetics seeks to solve a puzzle that neither philosophy nor socialist politics was able to: the fundamental ethical question of what individuals and humanity as a whole ought to do. Art offers Lukács the already-existing means through which the damaged edifice of Marxism might be reconstructed on a durable basis on which to rest the philosophy, politics, and ethics of a non-Soviet-style Marxism.

Table of Contents

Editor’s Introduction: Art in Its Eigenart  Erik M. Bachman Acknowledgements Note on the Translation The Specificity of the Aesthetic Preface 1 Issues of Reflection in Everyday Life 2 The Disanthropomorphisation of Reflection in Science 3 Preliminary Issues of the Disentanglement of Art from Everyday Life as a Matter of Principle 4 The Abstract Forms of the Aesthetic Reflection of Reality 5 Issues of Mimesis I: The Coming into Being of Aesthetic Reflection 6 Issues of Mimesis II: The Path to the Worldedness of Art 7 Issues of Mimesis III: The Path of the Subject to Aesthetic Reflection 8 Issues of Mimesis IV: The World Proper to Works of Art 9 Issues of Mimesis V: The Defetishising Mission of Art 10 Issues of Mimesis VI: Universal Features of the Subject-Object Relationship in Aesthetics References Index

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  • NCID
    BD05777393
  • ISBN
    • 9789004526068
  • LCCN
    2022062015
  • Country Code
    ne
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    ger
  • Place of Publication
    Leiden
  • Pages/Volumes
    xlii, 777 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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