Soul and Form

György Lukács, Edited by John T. Sanders, and Katie Terezakis; Introduction by Judith Butler and Translated by Anna Bostock

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Paper, 264 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14981-5
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January, 2010
Cloth, 264 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14980-8
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Preface

Introduction Judith Butler

1. On the Nature and Form of the Essay: A Letter to Leo Popper

2. Platonism, Poetry and Form: Rudolf Kassner

3. The Foundering of Form Against Life: Søren Kierkegaard and Regine Olsen

4. On the Romantic Philosophy of Life: Novalis

5. The Bourgeois Way of Life and Art for Art’s Sake: Theodor Storm

6. The New Solitude and Its Poetry: Stefan George

7. Longing and Form: Charles-Louis Philippe

8. The Moment and Form: Richard Beer-Hofmann

9. Richness, Chaos, and Form: A Dialogue Concerning Lawrence Sterne

10. The Metaphysics of Tragedy: Paul Ernst

Sources and References

On Poverty of Spirit: A Conversation and a Letter

Afterword: The Legacy of Form Katie Terezakis

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• Aesthetics
• European and British Literature
• Literary Criticism and Theory

Series

• Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts

About the Author

György Lukács (1885-1971) is the author of Theory of the Novel, History and Class Consciousness, The Destruction of Reason, and The Ontology of Social Being, among many other works. John T. Sanders is professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of The Ethical Argument Against Government and coeditor of both Debating the State of Philosophy: Habermas, Rorty, and Kolakowski and For and Against the State: New Philosophical Readings. Katie Terezakis is assistant professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the author of The Immanent Word: The Turn to Language in German Philosophy, 1759-1801 and the editor of Engaging Agnes Heller: A Critical Companion. Judith Butler is the Maxine Eliot Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley and author of Gender Trouble, The Psychic Life of Power, and Subjects of Desire, among other works. Anna Bostock is also the translator of Lukács's The Theory of the Novel.

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