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Marxism and Human Liberation: Essas on History, Culture and Revolution

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Using the concept of mimesis to indicate the universal appeal of art as reflection of reality, Lukacs defines art as the identical subject-object of the artistic process. While capturing the essential characteristics of the socio-historical world, art articulates the self-consciousness of the human species. Founded on the sensory apperception of the world, the work of art achieves typicality in harmonizing the facts of immediate experience within the limits of organic form. The artist who shapes significant form, fashions a mirror image of an objective realm of values. Contrary to the view that Lukacs aesthetics opens the way to an anarchic plurality of forms and a value-free eclecticism patterned after Aristotle, it must be stressed that Lukacs' belief in realism as the only valid principle and style of artistic composition is based on the cardinal Marxian tenet of laws governing the historical development of society. If in realism there is a plausible and sensitive embodiment of the most decisive tendencies and crucial issues of the times in the characters and their actions, this will reflect the interlocked forces in the class struggle as well as the negative and positive forces of any socio-historical event.

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335.43 Luk m

Publisher

New York : A Delto Book., 1973

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xviii, 332 pages 21 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-440-55473-X

Classification

335.43

Edition

1

Subject(s)

Communism
Aesthetics

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