Lukács Reads Goethe: From Aestheticism to Stalinism

Lukács Reads Goethe: From Aestheticism to Stalinism
ISBN-10
1571131140
ISBN-13
9781571131140
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
158
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
Camden House
Authors
Nicholas Vazsonyi, Professor of German and Comparative Literature Nicholas Vazsonyi

Description

Vazsonyi shows Lukács's evolving view of Goethe, examining how in the 1930's he was able to write enthusiastically about the poet, citing him as an ideal exponent of humanism, while simultaneously accepting and even condoning Stalinism.

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