The culture of people's democracy : Hungarian essays on literature, art, and democratic transition, 1945-1948 / / by Gyorgy Lukacs ; edited and translated by Tyrus Miller.
When the Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic György Lukács returned to Hungary from Moscow after World War II, he engaged in a highly active phase of writing and speaking about the democratic culture needed to exorcise the remnants of fascism and to create the conditions for the advanc...
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Historical Materialism Book Series
42. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 1. Foreword to Literature and Democracy
- 2. Democracy and Culture
- 3. Lenin and the Question of Culture
- 4. Literature and Democracy I
- 5. Literature and Democracy II
- 6. Populist Writers in the Balance
- 7. Poetry of the Party
- 8. Free or Directed Art?
- 9. Against Old and New Legends
- 10. The Unity of Hungarian Literature
- 11. The Tasks of Marxist Philosophy in the New Democracy
- 12. On ‘Kitsch’ and ‘Proletcult’
- 13. Hungarian Theories of Abstract Art
- 14. The Hungarian Communist Party and Hungarian Culture
- 15. The Revision of Hungarian Literary History
- Historical, Literary, and Biographical Glossary
- References
- Person Index
- Subject Index.