Georg Lukács and Critical Theory: Aesthetics, History, Utopia

This book examines the heritage of critical theory from the Hungarian Marxist philosopher Georg Lukács through the early Frankfurt School up to current issues of authoritarian politics and democratisation. Interweaving discussion of art and literature, utopian thought, and the dialectics of high art and mass culture, it offers unique perspectives on an interconnected group of left—wing intellectuals who sought to understand and resist their society's systemic impoverishment of thought and e...