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Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I: Essays in Autobiography
Introduction
1. Soren Kierkegaard and Regine Olsen
2. Diary (1910-1911)
3. On Poverty of Spirit
4. My Socratic Mask
PART II: Drama and Tragedy
Introduction
5. Shakespeare and Modem Drama
6. John Ford
7. August Strindberg
8. Thoughts on Henrik Ibsen
9. Peer Gynt
10. Oscar Wilde
11. Bernard Shaw
PART III: Art and Literature
Introduction
12. Aesthetic Culture
13. Paul Gauguin
14. The Parting of the Ways
15. Stavrogin's Confession
16. Integrated Civilizations
17. The Ideology of Modernism
PART IV: Philosophy and Politics
Introduction
18. Bolshevism as an Ethical Problem
19. Class Consciousness
20. Friedrich Nietzsche
21. Martin Heidegger
Bibliography
Index
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THE LUKACS READER Edited by

Arpad Kadarkay

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BLACI 148-9 Asclepius 59,61 Assisi, Francis 44 avant-garde 143 Balazs, Bela 7, 34, 68, 146 Balzac, Honore 100, 198 Ban6k, Bela 144 Baudelaire 40,97 Bauer, Hilda 28 Baumgatten, Ferenc 26, 28, 34, 37, 39 Beckett, Samuel 194, 198-9, 209 Bellini, Giovanni 78 Benedek, Marcell 65 Benjamin, Walter 203,205-7 Benn,Gonfried 193,195,199,200-1 Bennett, Arnold 143

Bergson, Henri 203, 278 Berlin 12, 26, 34 Bible 55, 161 Biran, Maine de 37, 41 Bismarck, Otto von 246, 253 Blackfriars theatre 71 Blake, William 107 Bloch, Ernst 31,34,40 Bloom, Harold 119 Bolshevism 213,215,216-20 bourgeois 92, 125, 129, 150, 223,234 bourgeois realism 187 Bradley, A. C. 81,87 Brentano, Clemens 98,100, 155 Brittany 163, 165 Brod, Max 207 Browning, Roben 16 Buber, Martin 9 Budapest 26, 28, 29, 36, 39, 67, 167 Burke, Edmund 81 Bunon, Roben 87 Byron, Lord 80, 159 Caesar 131, 134, 135, 139-40 capitalism 231,233,235,237, 259-60, 272, 281 Carlyle, Thomas 237 Catherine of Siena 51 Celine, Louis-Ferdinand 272 Cervantes 70 Cezanne, Paul 143, 144, 162, 164 Christianity 113, 151, 165,253, 256-7

Index

288 class consciousness 213-14, 222, 2~6-7,229,238-9,242-3

communism 213 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 75 condition humaine 190, 198 Copenhagen 12 Crito 59 Croce, Benedetto 173 Csorba,Ivan 33,40 culture 66, 146-7 Dante 3,91, 151, 185 Darwin, Charles 260-1 Darwinism 258-9, 261, 279 debAcle 28, 30 Degas, Edgar 143, 173 Die neue Rundschau 41 democracy 217-19,220 destiny 183-4 dictatorship 217 Dilthey, Wilhelm 268, 270, 278 Dionysus 6,250,256 dissonance 48, 52 Doblin, Alfred 193 Dorati, Antal 3 Dos Passos, John 192-3 Dostoevsky, Fyodor 4, 44, 143-4, 158,254; Crime and Punishment 176,220; House of the Dead 201; Idiot 176; Possessed 174-7 drama 70, 75, 76-7, 78, 79, 86, 88, 135, 136 duty 54,71 Eckhart, Meister 29,40,47, 151, 158 ego 168 Eight, The 143, 144, 171; see aLSo avant-garde Eliot,T.S.193,194 Ellis, Havelock 85, 89 Enlightenment 254-5 ens realissimum 28-9 epic 32, 150, 180 Epicurus 208, 249 Ernst, Paul 31, 34, 40, 158 Eros 5,6,7,59 essay 36, 143

Euripides 110 ethics 29,46,50,260 'false consciousness,' 225-6, 229, 235-6 Faulkner, William 194, 198 Ferenczi, Charlotte 57 Fichte, J. G. 51,98,218 Flaubert, Gustave 82, 85, 89, 97, 99, 100-1, 106, 125, 152, 165, 189 Florence 33,37 Ford, John 67,82; Broken Heart 84-5, 86; 'Tis Pity She's a Whore 83,84,85,87; Lady's Trial 88; Love's Sacrifice 85, 86, 90; Lover's Melancholy 88; Perkin Warbeck 85 form 44,54,149-50,157 Forster, E. M. 107 France, Anatole 155 Franklin, Benjamin 244 Freud, Sigmund 197,247 Frigyes, Antal 143 Fulep, Lajos 37,41, 143, 173 Gauguin, Paul 143, 160-4 George, Stefan 158 Germany 39, 98, 249, 267 gesture II, 13,20-1,34 Gide, Andre 193, 209, 272 Giorgione 78 Giotto 37,78,81, 151, 185 Globe theatre 71 God 17,18-19,43,47,50,54,208, 224,253-4,263, 278, 281 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 6, 34-5, 71, 77, 78, 91, 92, 112, 154, 187, 188; Faust 7, 112; Iphigenie 6, 35, 112 Goldmann, Lucien 214 Goodness 43-6, 48-9 Goncourt, Edmond de 53, 55 Gnostics 46 grace 47-8 Grabenko, Ljena 68 Greece 250-1 Greeks 180-3

Index

Grillparzer, Franz 72, 76, 80, 97 Habennas, Jiirgen 214 Ha;os, Edith 33, 40 Hals, Frans 70, 80 Hapsburg Monarchy 190 Hauptmann, Gerhart 66,67, 127 Hauser, Arnold 143 Hazlitt, William 81 Hebbel, Friedrich 72, 73, 76; Herodes and Mariamne 108; Maria Magdalene 85 Hegel, G. W. F. 75-6,81, 110, 189, 190,231,267,278,281 Heidegger, Martin 190, 195, 266; Being and Time 214,272-3; Dasein 267-9,271-2,277, 279-80 Heraclitus 249 Herceg, Ferencz 153 historical materialism 222, 231 Hitler, Adolf 253, 256, 274, 281 Hobbes, Thomas 254 Hofmann, Ludwig von 87 Hofmannsthal, Hugo von 153, 191, 204 Holy Alliance 98 Holderlin, Friedrich 98 Homer 180, 183-4, 201 Hooch, Pieter de 78-9, 81 humanity 50, 196 Humboldt, Wilhelm von 35 Husserl, Edmund 266, 270 Huszadik Sztizad (journal) 67, 95, 143 Ibsen, Henrik 65,91, 125, 152,274; Doll's House 101, 103, 107, 108; Enemy of the People 102-3; Brand 102, 112; Emperor and Galilean 102, 109, 112-13; Hedda Gabler 104, 110; John Gabriel Borkman 101, 104, 108, 110; Ghosts 85, 90; Lady from the Sea 109; League of Youth 108; Little Eyolf 104; Love's Comedy 99, 102, 107; Olaf Liljekrans 108; Master Builder 103, 109, 110; Peer Gym 25,

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66, 100, 111-19; Pillars of Society 110; Pretenders 105, 109, 111; Rosmersholm 103-104, 109, 110; Vikings at Helgeland 109; When We Dead Awaken 7, 105, 106-7, 111; Wild Duck 66, 100, 102, 128, 159 Ignotus 29, 40 Impressionism 143, 162, 169-71 intelligiblen Ich 29 irrationalism 275-6 irony 126

Jacobsen, Jens Peter 208 Jaspers, Karl 255-6,257,266-7, 272 Jaszi,Oszkar 67,220-1 Jephthah 50 Jonson, Ben 82 Joyce, James 144, 188, 190, 193, 194, 209, 272; Ulysses 187 Kafka, Franz 190, 194, 200, 202, 207-9 Kant, Emanuel 6, 7, 9, 10,40,50, 55, 158, 184,218,270 Kassner, Rudolf 9, 34 Kaufmannn, Walter 255-6 Keats, John 11, 16,22, 152 Kelemen, Komives 50 Kernstok, Karoly 143, 171-2 Kerr, Alfred 196 Kierkegaard, Soren 4, 5, 6, 11, 45, 99, 144, 195, 248, 266-7, 269-70,276-7,281; Either-Or 10, 24; Fear and Trembling 9, 24; Journals of Kierkegaard 24-5; 'Seducer's Diary' 19; Stages on Life's Way 24 Kipling, Rudyard 41 Kleist, Heinrich von 72 Lamb, Charles 87 Lao, Tzu 52 Lederer, Emil 9 Leonardo da Vinci 78,91-2 Lessing, Gottfried Ephraim 67, 71 life 14,32,35,36,39,44,51,57, 92, 126

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literature 143, 191 longing 60 love 17,27,58,60 Lowinger, Jozsef 3 Ludwig, Otto 71,80 Lukacs, Georg: birth and origin 3-4; friendship with Weber 4,9-10; love affair 4-9; friendship with Balazs 7-8; visits Ibsen 65-66; founds Thalia Theatre 66-7; his drama, Kohn Gabriel 108; DestrUction of Reason 215; History and Class Consciousness 39, 213-14; Modern Drama 39,67; 'On Poverty of Spirit', 9-10 Realism in Our Time 144; Soul and Form 4,7, 10,27,39-40, 108; Theory of the Novel 55, 144 Luther, Martin 234 Luxemburg, Rosa 244-5 Machiavelli 138 Maeterlinck, Maurice 83, 120-1 Magyar Szalon (journal) 65 Magyar Vilag (journal) 67 Manet, Edouard 78,80, 174 Mann, Thomas 143, 152, 188, 196; Death in Venice 41; Lotte in Weimar 187 Mannheim, Karl 144 Marlowe, Christopher 83 marriage 35 Marx 66, 127, 138,218,221,222-5, 234,240-1,249,273 Marxism 169-70,213,215,218,244 Matisse, Henri 143 Meere, Hans von 158 melancholy 15 Michelangelo 37,91, 157, 173; Last Judgment 42 Mill, J. S. 110, 139 miracle 33, 35, 44, 46, 48 modernism 187, 202 Moliere 200 monde visible 161 Monet, Claude 143, 173 monoloque interieur 187-8

Montaigne, Michel de 249 Montherlant, Henri de 198-9 Moravia, Alberto 192 Moreau, Gustave 123 Morris, William 68 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 8 Musil, Robert 190, 193-4, 196-7, 198, 201, 207 Musset, Alfred de 97 Napoleon 23 naturalism 135, 200 Nazism 195,215 Neue Blatter (journal) 9 Neumann, John von 3 Nietzsche 66, 113, 246; Anti-Christ 257,263; Birth of Tragedy 250, 253, 264; Ecce homo 252, 256, 264; Gay Science 253, 262; Human, All Too Human 259; Twilight of the Idols 259-60, 263; Untimely Meditations 253, 265; Will to Power 259,261,264-5; Zarathustra 263, 265 Nietzsche, Elizabeth Forster 256, 264 Norway 99 Novalis 29, 98 Nyugat (journal) 6, 143 Oehlenschlager, Adam Gottlob 100, 107 Olsen, Regine 4,6, 11-13 Paine, Tom 81 Paris 68, 162, 165 Paris Commune 246,250 Pavese, Cesare 192-3 Phaedo (Plato) 61, 159 Phaedrus (Plato) 5, 61 phenomenology 268-9, 275 Philippe, Charles-Louis 7, 158 Philoctetes 60 philosophy 67, 183-4, 190,249 Plato 5,58,60-1,67, 158-9, 183-4 Plotinus 53, 56 poet 23, 70, 82-3 Pollmyi, Karl 30, 34, 40, 220

Index

Plutarch 140 Popper, Leo 6,9, 27, 28 proletariat 217-1,8, 219, 232, 238-9, 242-3,247 Proteus 12 Proust, Henri 144, 203 psychology 21-2, 150, 181, 197 Rabelais, Fran~ois 70 reification 233 Raleigh, Walter 68, 77, 81 rationalism 97-8, 275 realism 200 redemption 52, 54, 185 Reformation 51 Renaissance 91, 98, 172 Renaissance (journal) 143 revolution 229,239, 242, 248 French Revolution 257 Rilke, Rainer Maria 9 Rodin, Auguste 157 romanticism 97-8, 99, 125 Rousseau, Jean Jacques 93, 165, 199,253 Ruskin, John 68, 81 Salomon, Ernst von 195 Sardou, Victorien 122 Schiller, Friedrich von 76, 154 Schlegel, Friedrich 16,35, 55, 155 Seidler, Irma 4, 5, 9, 10, 27, 30, 38 Schmitt, Carl 195 Schnitzler, Arthur 143 Schopenhauer, Arthur 6,41, 97, 159,244,253,262,274 Scott, Sir Walter 80 Sennon on the Mount 51 Settignano 37 Shakespeare 66,67-8,82,91, 198; Antony and Cleopatra 75; Coriolanus 74; Cymbeline 72; King Lear 72-3, 74; Macbeth 75-6,90, 109; Merchant of Venice 72; Othello 73-4, 90; Richard the Second 74; Romeo and Juliet 73-4; Shaw, Bernard 68,71, 125-36, 152,

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155; Arms and the Man 130-1; Caesar and Cleopatra 137, 138-9; Candida 132, 135, 138; Captain Brassbound's Conversion 130, 138-9; Devil's Disciple 133-4, 140, 192; Doctor's Dilemma 130-1, 134, 139, 140; John Bull's Other Island 133; Major Barbara 128-9, 137, 138; Man and Superman 129, 132, 137; Man of Destiny 132; Mrs Warren Profession 128, 140; Philanderer 131, 137; You Never Can Tell 131, 133, 139; Widowers' Houses 128 Schlegel, Friedrich 98 Shelley, Percy Bysshe 34, 98, 107 Simmel, Georg 27,31,34,273,280 sin 48-9,86 Smith, Adam 223 Social Darwinism 258-9, 260 socialism 151-3, 155,219 Socrates 5,6,16,58-60, 146, 158-9 Sophist 146, 159 Sophocles 62,67, 189; Oedipus Rex 85 Spencer, Herbert 261 Spengler, Oswald 270, 280 soul 17, 26, 48, 58-9, 155-7 Stein, Frau von 34,41 Steiner, George 68, 145 Stendhal 100, 198 Straus, Richard 123 Strindberg, August 5,66,91, 143, 163, 165; Father 66-7,95; Inferno 95; Madman's Defence 95; Occult Diary 95 Sturm und Drang 71 suicide 49 Swinburne, Algernon Charles 71, 87, 122-3 Symposium 61 Szab6, Ervin 228 Szellem, A (journal) 9, 173

Tahiti 163, 165 Thalia Theatre 66

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'throwness-into-being,' 190 Tisza, Istvan 3 Tolnay, Charles 143 Tolstoy, Leo 71, 189 totality 183, 185, 226, 236 tragedy 74, 103, 126, 153,232 Umwertung (re-evaluation) 161

Van Gogh, Vincent 143, 160, 162, 165 Velazquez, Diego de 70, 80 Vercingetorix 131-2 Virgil 165 virtue 53, 54 Voltaire 71, 255

Index

Weber, Marianne 9-10 Weber, Max 4,9-10,39, 144, 213-14,244 Webster, John 82 Wedekind, Frank 126-7 Weltanschauung 170-1, 172, 188 Wigner, Eugene 3 Wilde, Oscar 87, 120-2; Duches of Padua 120; Importance of Being Earnest 120; Salome 121-2 Wittgenstein, Ludwig 214 Wolfe, Thomas 189 woman 27,35 Wordsworth, William 107 work 32-3,34,49,52 Xanthippe 18

war 195,213,237,248; First World War 252-3,266 Wagner, Richard 152,250,252

zoion politikon 189, 198

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