{"product_id":"the-specificity-of-the-aesthetic-volume-1-9798888902097","title":"The Specificity of the Aesthetic, Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe second volume in the Lukács library, collecting and translating for the first time previously unavailable pieces of the Hungarian philosopher's works.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow is it possible that works of art exist? How do we become receptive aesthetic subjects? \u003cem\u003eThe Specificity of the Aesthetic\u003c\/em\u003e extends these fundamental ontological and phenomenological questions around which Lukács's theory of art was oragnized. This late work of aesthetics seeks to solve a puzzle that neither philosophy nor socialist politics was able to: the fundamental ethical question of what individuals and humanity as a whole ought to do. Art offers Lukács the already-existing means through which the damaged edifice of Marxism might be reconstructed on a durable basis on which to rest the philosophy, politics, and ethics of a non-Soviet-style Marxism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e György Lukács\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Haymarket Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 822\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798888902097\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGyörgy Lukács\u003c\/strong\u003e was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eErik M. Bachman\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is author of \u003cem\u003eLiterary Obscenities: U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism, \u003c\/em\u003e and he has also published numerous essays on modernism, film, and Lukács.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTyrus Miller \u003c\/strong\u003eis the Dean of the School of Humanities at the University of California at Irvine. He has published and edited many notable monographs and essays on modernism, critical theory, and the avant-garde.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43875168059507,"sku":"9.79889E+12","price":116.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_5fdd78ae-b96d-4632-88a6-539aa1c79f85.jpg?v=1758285127","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-specificity-of-the-aesthetic-volume-1-9798888902097","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}