The Specificity of the Aesthetic, Volume 1

Download or read book The Specificity of the Aesthetic, Volume 1 written by György Lukács and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 821 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it possible that works of art exist? How do we become receptive aesthetic subjects? The Specificity of the Aesthetic extends these fundamental ontological and phenomenological questions around which Georg Lukács’s theory of art was organised. 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.