Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.17234/ZGB.29.4
Drama or Novel. Literature in the Focus of Intellectual Existence in the Work of Georg Lukács
Christa Karpenstein-Eßbach
; University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Abstract
The meaning and problematic of ›form‹ in Lukács, most of all in his early writings, unfolds in three ways. Essayism is understood as an intellectual action that responds to a modernity perceived as difficult (1). Literary modes of speech and representation are an expression of life that has become form and connected with their own interpretations of the world qua form, as they gain their contours in drama and the novel and are linked with respective signatures of the philosophy of history within the framework of an unfinished modernity (2). The ascent to form which Lukács carries out in three steps – drama, novel, essay – is finally related to and contrasted with the thought impulses of postmodernism (3).
Keywords
Georg Lukács; essay; drama; roman; modernism; postmodernism
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253933
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Publication date:
7.3.2021.
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