{"product_id":"soul-and-form-9780231149815","title":"Soul and Form","description":"\u003cp\u003eGyörgy Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. \u003cem\u003eSoul and Form\u003c\/em\u003e was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of Plato, Kierkegaard, Novalis, Sterne, and others. By isolating the formal techniques these thinkers developed, Lukács laid the groundwork for his later work in Marxist aesthetics, a field that introduced the historical and political implications of text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor this centennial edition, John T. Sanders and Katie Terezakis add a dialogue entitled \"On Poverty of Spirit,\" which Lukács wrote at the time of \u003cem\u003eSoul and Form\u003c\/em\u003e, and an introduction by Judith Butler, which compares Lukács's key claims to his later work and subsequent movements in literary theory and criticism. In an afterword, Terezakis continues to trace the Lukácsian system within his writing and other fields. These essays explore problems of alienation and isolation and the curative quality of aesthetic form, which communicates both individuality and a shared human condition. They investigate the elements that give rise to form, the history that form implies, and the historicity that form embodies. Taken together, they showcase the breakdown, in modern times, of an objective aesthetics, and the rise of a new art born from lived experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGy?rgy Luk?cs (1885-1971) is the author of \u003ci\u003eTheory of the Novel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHistory and Class Consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Destruction of Reason\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Ontology of Social Being\u003c\/i\u003e, among many other works. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn T. Sanders is professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ethical Argument Against Government\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of both \u003ci\u003eDebating the State of Philosophy: Habermas, Rorty, and Kolakowski\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFor and Against the State: New Philosophical Readings\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKatie Terezakis is assistant professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Immanent Word: The Turn to Language in German Philosophy, 1759-1801\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of \u003ci\u003eEngaging Agnes Heller: A Critical Companion\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJudith Butler is the Maxine Eliot Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley and author of \u003ci\u003eGender Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Psychic Life of Power\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSubjects of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e, among other works. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnna Bostock is also the translator of Luk?cs's \u003ci\u003eThe Theory of the Novel\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50903511073042,"sku":"9780231149815","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bc0e7adb-41c7-4f24-a6a6-1e9fdac7addd.jpg?v=1738496507","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/soul-and-form-9780231149815","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}