Ira Katznelson
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- January 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780198279242
- eISBN:
- 9780191601910
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198279248.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
The first of the two main sections of this chapter discusses Marx's goal and the elements of a Marxist tradition, and presents the views of various later scholars (David Little, Steven Lukes, Alvin ...
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The first of the two main sections of this chapter discusses Marx's goal and the elements of a Marxist tradition, and presents the views of various later scholars (David Little, Steven Lukes, Alvin Goulder, Edward Thompson, Leonard Krieger, Georg Lukács, Antonio Gramsci, and others) on these elements. The three distinctive but inter‐related projects elaborated in Marx's aim of reconstructing the post‐capitalist world are examined in detail: the construction of a theory of history to account for the change between epochs on the largest possible scale, which focuses on the struggles between social classes within the twin frame of the development of the forces of production, and the nature of the relationships joining people in the social features of the production process; the building of a model of the economy within the capitalist epoch; and the construction of a social theory capable of inventing explanations about specific capitalist societies (the focus of most of this book). Gramsci elaborated on the most promising lines of inquiry embedded in Marx's historical writings to develop the base–superstructure distinction as a complex web of relations in which the economic, political, and cultural elements of a situation are interconnected, and in which the historicity of social structure is made central. The final section of the chapter explores these issues of Marxist social theory in the work of Edward Thompson, Raymond Williams, Eric Hobsbawm, and G. A. Cohen (who demonstrate the repertoire of alternative theoretical moves developed since Gramsci), and points out that the capacity of Marxism to provide an attractive alternative to the differentiation problematic in studies of the city hinges on the character and persuasiveness of these linkages. In the concluding discussion, the author returns to the issue of the capaciousness of Marxist theory.Less
The first of the two main sections of this chapter discusses Marx's goal and the elements of a Marxist tradition, and presents the views of various later scholars (David Little, Steven Lukes, Alvin Goulder, Edward Thompson, Leonard Krieger, Georg Lukács, Antonio Gramsci, and others) on these elements. The three distinctive but inter‐related projects elaborated in Marx's aim of reconstructing the post‐capitalist world are examined in detail: the construction of a theory of history to account for the change between epochs on the largest possible scale, which focuses on the struggles between social classes within the twin frame of the development of the forces of production, and the nature of the relationships joining people in the social features of the production process; the building of a model of the economy within the capitalist epoch; and the construction of a social theory capable of inventing explanations about specific capitalist societies (the focus of most of this book). Gramsci elaborated on the most promising lines of inquiry embedded in Marx's historical writings to develop the base–superstructure distinction as a complex web of relations in which the economic, political, and cultural elements of a situation are interconnected, and in which the historicity of social structure is made central. The final section of the chapter explores these issues of Marxist social theory in the work of Edward Thompson, Raymond Williams, Eric Hobsbawm, and G. A. Cohen (who demonstrate the repertoire of alternative theoretical moves developed since Gramsci), and points out that the capacity of Marxism to provide an attractive alternative to the differentiation problematic in studies of the city hinges on the character and persuasiveness of these linkages. In the concluding discussion, the author returns to the issue of the capaciousness of Marxist theory.
Margaret Notley
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195305470
- eISBN:
- 9780199866946
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195305470.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Brahms's self-identity and public identity as a Liberal are the basis for the two historical perspectives in this book. One reconstructs his place in Vienna. The other draws on criticism conditioned ...
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Brahms's self-identity and public identity as a Liberal are the basis for the two historical perspectives in this book. One reconstructs his place in Vienna. The other draws on criticism conditioned by Western Marxism, on ideas developed in response to 19th-century Liberalism. Brahms appears not to have recognized a societal problem of late Liberalism: exaggerated emphasis on the individual. He did, however, recognize a related musical problem delineated by Adorno — individualized themes at the expense of the formal whole — and made it central to his lifework. Commentary on Brahms's chamber music draws on other ideas articulated by Adorno and Lukács such as “second nature”, while discussion of ideology of the symphony applies Habermas's explanation of the “public sphere”, in both instances to move between social and musical problems associated with late Liberalism. Emphasis is placed on Brahms's diverse sources of renewal and on an under-explored facet of his music: his mastery of ways and degrees of establishing a key in this late period of tonality. With Brahms's works and his circumstances as exemplars, an addendum to late-style dialectics is proposed: late works are at once an expression of their time and alienated from the contemporary context. For better and worse, Brahms remained an orthodox Liberal. Thus, despite his allegiance to German nationalism he did not succumb to the tribalism that became critical around 1890.Less
Brahms's self-identity and public identity as a Liberal are the basis for the two historical perspectives in this book. One reconstructs his place in Vienna. The other draws on criticism conditioned by Western Marxism, on ideas developed in response to 19th-century Liberalism. Brahms appears not to have recognized a societal problem of late Liberalism: exaggerated emphasis on the individual. He did, however, recognize a related musical problem delineated by Adorno — individualized themes at the expense of the formal whole — and made it central to his lifework. Commentary on Brahms's chamber music draws on other ideas articulated by Adorno and Lukács such as “second nature”, while discussion of ideology of the symphony applies Habermas's explanation of the “public sphere”, in both instances to move between social and musical problems associated with late Liberalism. Emphasis is placed on Brahms's diverse sources of renewal and on an under-explored facet of his music: his mastery of ways and degrees of establishing a key in this late period of tonality. With Brahms's works and his circumstances as exemplars, an addendum to late-style dialectics is proposed: late works are at once an expression of their time and alienated from the contemporary context. For better and worse, Brahms remained an orthodox Liberal. Thus, despite his allegiance to German nationalism he did not succumb to the tribalism that became critical around 1890.
Margaret Notley
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195305470
- eISBN:
- 9780199866946
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195305470.003.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of a chamber movement by Brahms, which introduces the book's themes, one of which concerns genre aesthetics and in particular cultural significance ...
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This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of a chamber movement by Brahms, which introduces the book's themes, one of which concerns genre aesthetics and in particular cultural significance assigned to chamber music and slow movements. Focusing on the inwardness expressed in the excerpt, it then elucidates a second theme, the historicity of his music: the passage, with its clearly implied reflecting subject, sounds of its time and place, late 19th-century Vienna. Further discussion of the excerpt exposes other themes: of lateness within Brahms's oeuvre and in music-historical narratives that encompass him and his time. The chapter establishes the book's historical perspectives and critical sources, such as ideas about late Liberalism taken from Adorno and Lukács. It also introduces the eclectic analytical methodology and music-analytic questions to be addressed, which concern late style and historical lateness.Less
This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of a chamber movement by Brahms, which introduces the book's themes, one of which concerns genre aesthetics and in particular cultural significance assigned to chamber music and slow movements. Focusing on the inwardness expressed in the excerpt, it then elucidates a second theme, the historicity of his music: the passage, with its clearly implied reflecting subject, sounds of its time and place, late 19th-century Vienna. Further discussion of the excerpt exposes other themes: of lateness within Brahms's oeuvre and in music-historical narratives that encompass him and his time. The chapter establishes the book's historical perspectives and critical sources, such as ideas about late Liberalism taken from Adorno and Lukács. It also introduces the eclectic analytical methodology and music-analytic questions to be addressed, which concern late style and historical lateness.
Margaret Notley
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195305470
- eISBN:
- 9780199866946
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195305470.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Brahms voiced his sense of lateness by deploring declining music-pedagogical traditions. In a project of lifelong self-improvement, he compiled examples from other composers' music that seem to ...
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Brahms voiced his sense of lateness by deploring declining music-pedagogical traditions. In a project of lifelong self-improvement, he compiled examples from other composers' music that seem to violate a rule against parallel octaves and fifths. Evidence in the manuscript, letters, and his personal library shows the impact of the emergent field of musicology on this study. Brahms rejected attempts by Helmholtz, Chrysander, and other early musicologists to explain musical conventions such as voice leading — matters of “second nature” in the parlance of Adorno and Lukács — as first nature, as well as the related contemporary interest in just intonation. But villanelle by Marenzio and others, which referred to folk practices seemingly based in first nature, confronted him with unfathomable “foreign worlds”. It is argued that a final phase of collecting began in 1893-94 and served as a source of renewal apparent in voice-leading choices in his clarinet sonatas.Less
Brahms voiced his sense of lateness by deploring declining music-pedagogical traditions. In a project of lifelong self-improvement, he compiled examples from other composers' music that seem to violate a rule against parallel octaves and fifths. Evidence in the manuscript, letters, and his personal library shows the impact of the emergent field of musicology on this study. Brahms rejected attempts by Helmholtz, Chrysander, and other early musicologists to explain musical conventions such as voice leading — matters of “second nature” in the parlance of Adorno and Lukács — as first nature, as well as the related contemporary interest in just intonation. But villanelle by Marenzio and others, which referred to folk practices seemingly based in first nature, confronted him with unfathomable “foreign worlds”. It is argued that a final phase of collecting began in 1893-94 and served as a source of renewal apparent in voice-leading choices in his clarinet sonatas.
Massimo Cacciari
Alessandro Carrera and Massimo Verdicchio (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823230037
- eISBN:
- 9780823235834
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823230037.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Massimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today's Italy. This collection of chapters on political topics provides an introduction, in English, to his thought to date. It includes ...
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Massimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today's Italy. This collection of chapters on political topics provides an introduction, in English, to his thought to date. It includes chapters on Hofmannsthal, Lukács, Benjamin, Nietzsche, Weber, Derrida, Schmitt, Canetti, and Aeschylus. Written between 1978 and 2006, the chapters address the most hidden tradition in European political thought: the unpolitical. Far from being a refusal of politics, this book represents a critique of political reason and a way out of the now impracticable consolations of utopia and harmonious community.Less
Massimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today's Italy. This collection of chapters on political topics provides an introduction, in English, to his thought to date. It includes chapters on Hofmannsthal, Lukács, Benjamin, Nietzsche, Weber, Derrida, Schmitt, Canetti, and Aeschylus. Written between 1978 and 2006, the chapters address the most hidden tradition in European political thought: the unpolitical. Far from being a refusal of politics, this book represents a critique of political reason and a way out of the now impracticable consolations of utopia and harmonious community.
Rabindra Ray
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198077381
- eISBN:
- 9780199081011
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198077381.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
Where Georg Lukács’s partisan work explores the implications of Leninist thought or Marxist theory, this chapter suggests that Karl Mannheim is at greater pains to extend this thought into a theory ...
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Where Georg Lukács’s partisan work explores the implications of Leninist thought or Marxist theory, this chapter suggests that Karl Mannheim is at greater pains to extend this thought into a theory of consciousness in general. Varieties of ideological thought—Utopias or ideology proper—are possible, but the approach to the truth of affairs is made possible only on the basis of a free-floating declassed intelligentsia. Contemporary fulminations against ideology paradoxically see the intellectuals of a society as the source of this evil influence rather than a ground for its demystification. At all events, whatever one’s response to ideology or the possibility of its transcendence, in addition to the classes that in the Marxist schema underlie and explain ideology, the stratum of intellectuals—or more generally the intelligentsia—emerges as a significant locus of ideology or its demystification.Less
Where Georg Lukács’s partisan work explores the implications of Leninist thought or Marxist theory, this chapter suggests that Karl Mannheim is at greater pains to extend this thought into a theory of consciousness in general. Varieties of ideological thought—Utopias or ideology proper—are possible, but the approach to the truth of affairs is made possible only on the basis of a free-floating declassed intelligentsia. Contemporary fulminations against ideology paradoxically see the intellectuals of a society as the source of this evil influence rather than a ground for its demystification. At all events, whatever one’s response to ideology or the possibility of its transcendence, in addition to the classes that in the Marxist schema underlie and explain ideology, the stratum of intellectuals—or more generally the intelligentsia—emerges as a significant locus of ideology or its demystification.
Ian Aitken
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719070006
- eISBN:
- 9781781700884
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719070006.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This book embraces studies of cinematic realism and nineteenth-century tradition; the realist film theories of Lukács, Grierson, Bazin and Kracauer; and the relationship of realist film theory to the ...
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This book embraces studies of cinematic realism and nineteenth-century tradition; the realist film theories of Lukács, Grierson, Bazin and Kracauer; and the relationship of realist film theory to the general field of film theory and philosophy. It attempts a rigorous and systematic application of realist film theory to the analysis of particular films, suggesting new ways forward for a new series of studies in cinematic realism, and for a new form of film theory based on realism. The book stresses the importance of the question of realism both in film studies and in contemporary life.Less
This book embraces studies of cinematic realism and nineteenth-century tradition; the realist film theories of Lukács, Grierson, Bazin and Kracauer; and the relationship of realist film theory to the general field of film theory and philosophy. It attempts a rigorous and systematic application of realist film theory to the analysis of particular films, suggesting new ways forward for a new series of studies in cinematic realism, and for a new form of film theory based on realism. The book stresses the importance of the question of realism both in film studies and in contemporary life.
Galin Tihanov
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198187257
- eISBN:
- 9780191674679
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198187257.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This book is a comparative study in the history of ideas. It is an innovative examination of the intellectual background, affiliations and contexts of two major twentieth-century thinkers, and an ...
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This book is a comparative study in the history of ideas. It is an innovative examination of the intellectual background, affiliations and contexts of two major twentieth-century thinkers, and an historical interpretation of their work in aesthetics, cultural theory, literary history, and philosophy. Unlike all existing texts on Lukács and Bakhtin, the book offers a comparison of their writings at different stages of their intellectual development and in the broad context of the ideas of their time. It introduces unknown archival material and discusses hitherto disregarded or overlooked texts by Lukács and Bakhtin. The book puts forward new readings of the best-known work on Dostoevsky, Rabelais, and Goethe, and treats in an original way the question of the coherence of Bakhtin's oeuvre. It offers valuable insight into the sources of Bakhtin's terminological repertoire, and through examination of Bakhtin's and Lukács's intellectual affiliations, into the limits and substance of their originality as thinkers. Lukács and Bakhtin emerge from the book as thinkers, whose intellectual careers followed strikingly similar paths. They both were confronted with similar agendas and questions posed for them by their time. Bakhtin however, had to find answers not only for this common agenda, but also to the answers that Lukács himself had already provided.Less
This book is a comparative study in the history of ideas. It is an innovative examination of the intellectual background, affiliations and contexts of two major twentieth-century thinkers, and an historical interpretation of their work in aesthetics, cultural theory, literary history, and philosophy. Unlike all existing texts on Lukács and Bakhtin, the book offers a comparison of their writings at different stages of their intellectual development and in the broad context of the ideas of their time. It introduces unknown archival material and discusses hitherto disregarded or overlooked texts by Lukács and Bakhtin. The book puts forward new readings of the best-known work on Dostoevsky, Rabelais, and Goethe, and treats in an original way the question of the coherence of Bakhtin's oeuvre. It offers valuable insight into the sources of Bakhtin's terminological repertoire, and through examination of Bakhtin's and Lukács's intellectual affiliations, into the limits and substance of their originality as thinkers. Lukács and Bakhtin emerge from the book as thinkers, whose intellectual careers followed strikingly similar paths. They both were confronted with similar agendas and questions posed for them by their time. Bakhtin however, had to find answers not only for this common agenda, but also to the answers that Lukács himself had already provided.
Stephen Backhouse
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199604722
- eISBN:
- 9780191729324
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199604722.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society, Philosophy of Religion
The chapter looks at personhood and identity formation. It considers both the accusation (Adorno, Lukács and others) that Kierkegaard has no sense of society, as well as the counter‐arguments ...
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The chapter looks at personhood and identity formation. It considers both the accusation (Adorno, Lukács and others) that Kierkegaard has no sense of society, as well as the counter‐arguments (especially Bukdahl), which attempt to paint Kierkegaard as primarily a communitarian thinker. Instead, Kierkegaard's category of the ‘single individual’ [den Enkelte] offers a fresh account for the relationship between persons and groups. The chapter focuses on Point of View and Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, showing how Kierkegaardian identity formation rivals commonly accepted models. In light of Kierkegaard's Christological commitments, ‘the individual’ cannot be squared with a merely socio‐economic materialist view and it resists attempts to ground personhood primarily in a group or nation. The civic application for this Christian conception of identity is further explored with reference to Works of Love. Here, love for ‘the neighbour’ stands opposed to that which underwrites patriotism: neighbour love precludes nation love.Less
The chapter looks at personhood and identity formation. It considers both the accusation (Adorno, Lukács and others) that Kierkegaard has no sense of society, as well as the counter‐arguments (especially Bukdahl), which attempt to paint Kierkegaard as primarily a communitarian thinker. Instead, Kierkegaard's category of the ‘single individual’ [den Enkelte] offers a fresh account for the relationship between persons and groups. The chapter focuses on Point of View and Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, showing how Kierkegaardian identity formation rivals commonly accepted models. In light of Kierkegaard's Christological commitments, ‘the individual’ cannot be squared with a merely socio‐economic materialist view and it resists attempts to ground personhood primarily in a group or nation. The civic application for this Christian conception of identity is further explored with reference to Works of Love. Here, love for ‘the neighbour’ stands opposed to that which underwrites patriotism: neighbour love precludes nation love.
Dana Villa
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691135106
- eISBN:
- 9781400846788
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691135106.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
This chapter dissociates Max Weber's thought not only from a radical “student” of Weber's like Schmitt, who would eventually embrace Hitler, but also from his much more intimate protégé, Georg ...
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This chapter dissociates Max Weber's thought not only from a radical “student” of Weber's like Schmitt, who would eventually embrace Hitler, but also from his much more intimate protégé, Georg Lukács, who would become almost equally notorious for endorsing Stalin. It begins by laying out the basics of Weber's theoretical and political positions, the better to assess the view that he was an unwitting godfather of Weimar anti-liberalism and political radicalism. It then discusses specific continuities and discontinuities between Weber and Schmitt and Weber and Luckács. It argues that the discontinuities far outweigh the supposedly damning continuities. While Schmitt and Lukács undoubtedly learned much from Weber, their theoretical, practical, and moral positions are irreconcilable with his, for reasons which are both clear and substantial. There is, in other words, no “slippery slope” that leads from Weber to the unbound (and often unprincipled) positions of either Schmitt or Lukács.Less
This chapter dissociates Max Weber's thought not only from a radical “student” of Weber's like Schmitt, who would eventually embrace Hitler, but also from his much more intimate protégé, Georg Lukács, who would become almost equally notorious for endorsing Stalin. It begins by laying out the basics of Weber's theoretical and political positions, the better to assess the view that he was an unwitting godfather of Weimar anti-liberalism and political radicalism. It then discusses specific continuities and discontinuities between Weber and Schmitt and Weber and Luckács. It argues that the discontinuities far outweigh the supposedly damning continuities. While Schmitt and Lukács undoubtedly learned much from Weber, their theoretical, practical, and moral positions are irreconcilable with his, for reasons which are both clear and substantial. There is, in other words, no “slippery slope” that leads from Weber to the unbound (and often unprincipled) positions of either Schmitt or Lukács.
Axel Honneth
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195320466
- eISBN:
- 9780199851591
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195320466.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
During the 1920s and the 1930s, the notion of reification brought about recurring themes that concerned social and cultural critique. This term was used to describe the increasing level of ...
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During the 1920s and the 1930s, the notion of reification brought about recurring themes that concerned social and cultural critique. This term was used to describe the increasing level of unemployment, the economic crisis, and other such historical events that characterized the Weimar Republic. By combining concepts adapted from prominent philosophers such as Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Georg Simmel, George Lukács was able to come up with a three-part dissertation—“Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat” which prompted that the forms of life in such circumstances be examined as a consequence of social reification. This chapter illustrates four indicators which demonstrate how the term reification has veered away from the definition it acquired from the Weimar Republic and has moved toward a more theoretical discourse.Less
During the 1920s and the 1930s, the notion of reification brought about recurring themes that concerned social and cultural critique. This term was used to describe the increasing level of unemployment, the economic crisis, and other such historical events that characterized the Weimar Republic. By combining concepts adapted from prominent philosophers such as Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Georg Simmel, George Lukács was able to come up with a three-part dissertation—“Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat” which prompted that the forms of life in such circumstances be examined as a consequence of social reification. This chapter illustrates four indicators which demonstrate how the term reification has veered away from the definition it acquired from the Weimar Republic and has moved toward a more theoretical discourse.
Judith Butler
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195320466
- eISBN:
- 9780199851591
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195320466.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Although Honneth's re-thought-of concept of reification is still rooted in a reconstruction of Lukács works, he was able to incorporate matters such as social criticism, psychology, philosophy, and ...
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Although Honneth's re-thought-of concept of reification is still rooted in a reconstruction of Lukács works, he was able to incorporate matters such as social criticism, psychology, philosophy, and other related schools of thought in his rethinking. Honneth points out that there exists a connection between recognition in the context of philosophical anthropology and social theory and the problem of reification. In his rethinking, he attempts to relate reification to a more fundamental practice of recognition that is observed through specific forms to nature, to other people, and to the self. It is asserted that reification does not only mean that subjects are treated as objects within a model of the commodity, but rather that the subject itself is also reifying. This chapter looks into how Honneth was able to come up with his new conceptualization of the term reification in relation to Lukács original definition.Less
Although Honneth's re-thought-of concept of reification is still rooted in a reconstruction of Lukács works, he was able to incorporate matters such as social criticism, psychology, philosophy, and other related schools of thought in his rethinking. Honneth points out that there exists a connection between recognition in the context of philosophical anthropology and social theory and the problem of reification. In his rethinking, he attempts to relate reification to a more fundamental practice of recognition that is observed through specific forms to nature, to other people, and to the self. It is asserted that reification does not only mean that subjects are treated as objects within a model of the commodity, but rather that the subject itself is also reifying. This chapter looks into how Honneth was able to come up with his new conceptualization of the term reification in relation to Lukács original definition.
Axel Honneth
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195320466
- eISBN:
- 9780199851591
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195320466.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Honneth acknowledges that the comments of Judith Butler, Raymond Geuss, and Jonathan Lear on his rethinking of Lukács's theory of reification draw attention to how this reconceptualization poses an ...
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Honneth acknowledges that the comments of Judith Butler, Raymond Geuss, and Jonathan Lear on his rethinking of Lukács's theory of reification draw attention to how this reconceptualization poses an excessively optimistic anthropology. However, Honneth also insists that his suggestion of taking a social-ontological stance and addressing the need for elementary recognition to comprehend reification as the “forgetting” of this recognition account for whether this approach places too much emphasis on the intersubjective understanding of the human being and all other aspects of it. In this chapter, Honneth presents a frame of reference in which to situate his rethinking of the concept of reification, and realizes this as the “forgetfulness of recognition.”Less
Honneth acknowledges that the comments of Judith Butler, Raymond Geuss, and Jonathan Lear on his rethinking of Lukács's theory of reification draw attention to how this reconceptualization poses an excessively optimistic anthropology. However, Honneth also insists that his suggestion of taking a social-ontological stance and addressing the need for elementary recognition to comprehend reification as the “forgetting” of this recognition account for whether this approach places too much emphasis on the intersubjective understanding of the human being and all other aspects of it. In this chapter, Honneth presents a frame of reference in which to situate his rethinking of the concept of reification, and realizes this as the “forgetfulness of recognition.”
Ian Aitken (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474402217
- eISBN:
- 9781474421959
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474402217.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This book explores the ideas of four ‘major realist film theorists’: John Grierson, André Bazin, Georg Lukács and Siegfried Kracauer. Each of these figures has three chapters each devoted to ...
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This book explores the ideas of four ‘major realist film theorists’: John Grierson, André Bazin, Georg Lukács and Siegfried Kracauer. Each of these figures has three chapters each devoted to themselves. In addition, an extensive introduction of some 18,000 words, written by Ian Aitken, provides a general over view of the subject of cinematic realism, and attempts to develop a new model of cinematic realism in relation to various philosophical positions. In this critical anthology – the first collection to address the work of these four theorists in one volume – a wide range of international scholars explore the interconnections between the ideas of these theorists and help generate new understandings of this important field, reviving interest in these figures in the process. Challenging preconceptions about ‘classical’ film theory and the nature of realist representation, this invaluable collection helps to return the realist paradigm to the forefront of academic enquiry.Less
This book explores the ideas of four ‘major realist film theorists’: John Grierson, André Bazin, Georg Lukács and Siegfried Kracauer. Each of these figures has three chapters each devoted to themselves. In addition, an extensive introduction of some 18,000 words, written by Ian Aitken, provides a general over view of the subject of cinematic realism, and attempts to develop a new model of cinematic realism in relation to various philosophical positions. In this critical anthology – the first collection to address the work of these four theorists in one volume – a wide range of international scholars explore the interconnections between the ideas of these theorists and help generate new understandings of this important field, reviving interest in these figures in the process. Challenging preconceptions about ‘classical’ film theory and the nature of realist representation, this invaluable collection helps to return the realist paradigm to the forefront of academic enquiry.
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780719078842
- eISBN:
- 9781781701706
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719078842.003.0015
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter presents one of the last interviews granted by Georg Lukács before his death. It was broadcast on television on March 5, 1971. The questions were posed by director András Kovács, ...
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This chapter presents one of the last interviews granted by Georg Lukács before his death. It was broadcast on television on March 5, 1971. The questions were posed by director András Kovács, director of the film I muri (The Walls).Less
This chapter presents one of the last interviews granted by Georg Lukács before his death. It was broadcast on television on March 5, 1971. The questions were posed by director András Kovács, director of the film I muri (The Walls).
WReC (Warwick Research Collective)
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781781381892
- eISBN:
- 9781781382264
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781381892.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This theoretical chapter examines the question of what has been called ‘peripheral realism–. Reviewing the texts selected for examination in the book overall – produced at different times and places ...
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This theoretical chapter examines the question of what has been called ‘peripheral realism–. Reviewing the texts selected for examination in the book overall – produced at different times and places across the span of the long 20th century – it shows that they share not only common themes, plots and subjects, but also a range of formal features that might be called ‘irrealist’. The argument is that these techniques and devices represent formal registers of (semi-) peripherality in the world-literary system, discernible wherever literary works are composed that mediate the lived experience of capitalism's bewildering creative destruction (or destructive creation). This argument is mounted through particular reference to such authors as Dostoevsky and Machado de Assis and to literary historical development in such regions as Russia and the Caribbean, the United States, Brazil, Mexico (and Latin America more generally).Less
This theoretical chapter examines the question of what has been called ‘peripheral realism–. Reviewing the texts selected for examination in the book overall – produced at different times and places across the span of the long 20th century – it shows that they share not only common themes, plots and subjects, but also a range of formal features that might be called ‘irrealist’. The argument is that these techniques and devices represent formal registers of (semi-) peripherality in the world-literary system, discernible wherever literary works are composed that mediate the lived experience of capitalism's bewildering creative destruction (or destructive creation). This argument is mounted through particular reference to such authors as Dostoevsky and Machado de Assis and to literary historical development in such regions as Russia and the Caribbean, the United States, Brazil, Mexico (and Latin America more generally).
Alex Loftus
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816665716
- eISBN:
- 9781452946849
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816665716.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Environmental Politics
This book develops a conversation between Marxist theories of everyday life and recent work in urban political ecology, arguing for a philosophy of praxis in relation to the politics of urban ...
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This book develops a conversation between Marxist theories of everyday life and recent work in urban political ecology, arguing for a philosophy of praxis in relation to the politics of urban environments. Grounding its theoretical debate in empirical studies of struggles to obtain water in the informal settlements of Durban, South Africa, as well as in the creative acts of insurgent art activists in London, the book builds on the work of key Marxist thinkers to redefine “environmental politics.” A Marxist philosophy of praxis—that world-changing ideas emerge from the acts of everyday people—undergirds the book. Our daily reality, states the book, is woven out of the entanglements of social and natural relations, and as such a kind of environmental politics is automatically incorporated into our lives. Nevertheless, one effect of the public recognition of global environmental change, asserts Loftus, has been a resurgence of dualistic understandings of the world: for example, that nature is inflicting revenge on arrogant human societies. The book reformulates—with the assistance of such philosophers as Georg Lukács, Antonio Gramsci, Henri Lefebvre, and others—a politics of the environment in which everyday subjectivity is at the heart of a revolutionary politics.Less
This book develops a conversation between Marxist theories of everyday life and recent work in urban political ecology, arguing for a philosophy of praxis in relation to the politics of urban environments. Grounding its theoretical debate in empirical studies of struggles to obtain water in the informal settlements of Durban, South Africa, as well as in the creative acts of insurgent art activists in London, the book builds on the work of key Marxist thinkers to redefine “environmental politics.” A Marxist philosophy of praxis—that world-changing ideas emerge from the acts of everyday people—undergirds the book. Our daily reality, states the book, is woven out of the entanglements of social and natural relations, and as such a kind of environmental politics is automatically incorporated into our lives. Nevertheless, one effect of the public recognition of global environmental change, asserts Loftus, has been a resurgence of dualistic understandings of the world: for example, that nature is inflicting revenge on arrogant human societies. The book reformulates—with the assistance of such philosophers as Georg Lukács, Antonio Gramsci, Henri Lefebvre, and others—a politics of the environment in which everyday subjectivity is at the heart of a revolutionary politics.
Mark P. Leone
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520244504
- eISBN:
- 9780520931893
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520244504.003.0006
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter studies the author's efforts to connect the past with the present using archaeology. It first studies the Marxist thoughts of Georg Lukács and Louis Althusser, explaining how the author ...
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This chapter studies the author's efforts to connect the past with the present using archaeology. It first studies the Marxist thoughts of Georg Lukács and Louis Althusser, explaining how the author was able to combine their ideas, then showing how the author created more awareness toward ideology. The chapter also takes a look at the ceramics and toothbrush exhibits, as well as Archaeological Annapolis, and ends with a discussion of Jürgen Habermas's notion of the “lifeworld.”Less
This chapter studies the author's efforts to connect the past with the present using archaeology. It first studies the Marxist thoughts of Georg Lukács and Louis Althusser, explaining how the author was able to combine their ideas, then showing how the author created more awareness toward ideology. The chapter also takes a look at the ceramics and toothbrush exhibits, as well as Archaeological Annapolis, and ends with a discussion of Jürgen Habermas's notion of the “lifeworld.”
Ian Aitken
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719070006
- eISBN:
- 9781781700884
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719070006.003.0014
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter describes the model of aesthetic realism developed by the Hungarian theorist György Lukács, and sets out the parameters of a Lukácsian theory of cinematic realism. It discusses one of ...
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This chapter describes the model of aesthetic realism developed by the Hungarian theorist György Lukács, and sets out the parameters of a Lukácsian theory of cinematic realism. It discusses one of the most trenchant criticisms levelled against Lukács: that the model of realism is umbilically associated with a particular form of literature: the nineteenth-century realist novel. As a consequence of this concentrated focus, the chapter dismisses some of the most vital artistic movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including naturalism, and most forms of modernism. It establishes the link as to how Lukács appropriated the nineteenth-century realist tradition and examines the two central aspects of Lukács's theory: the notion of alienation and the model of the intensive totality. Lukács's writings on cinematic realism are also considered and contradicted for the type of naturalist/impressionist realism.Less
This chapter describes the model of aesthetic realism developed by the Hungarian theorist György Lukács, and sets out the parameters of a Lukácsian theory of cinematic realism. It discusses one of the most trenchant criticisms levelled against Lukács: that the model of realism is umbilically associated with a particular form of literature: the nineteenth-century realist novel. As a consequence of this concentrated focus, the chapter dismisses some of the most vital artistic movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including naturalism, and most forms of modernism. It establishes the link as to how Lukács appropriated the nineteenth-century realist tradition and examines the two central aspects of Lukács's theory: the notion of alienation and the model of the intensive totality. Lukács's writings on cinematic realism are also considered and contradicted for the type of naturalist/impressionist realism.
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804778701
- eISBN:
- 9780804783705
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804778701.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This book explores Asian American culture and politics by focusing on the notion of identity. It considers how the critique of identity politics has reconfigured the parameters of Asian American ...
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This book explores Asian American culture and politics by focusing on the notion of identity. It considers how the critique of identity politics has reconfigured the parameters of Asian American Studies and traces the persistence of what it calls the “idealized critical subject,” a theoretical figure that operates throughout Asian American literary culture and cultural criticism. To understand the fraught relationship between identity politics and literary representation, the book analyzes texts from different moments in the history of Asian American literature, including those by Eileen Chang, Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Chang-rae Lee, Michael Ondaatje, and Jose Garcia Villa. It looks at the referential limits of Asian America while remaining cognizant of its so-called “real-life referents.” The book also examines Georg Lukács's History and Class Consciousness, which illustrates how the relationship between knowledge and subjectivity can be theorized through an idealized critical subject.Less
This book explores Asian American culture and politics by focusing on the notion of identity. It considers how the critique of identity politics has reconfigured the parameters of Asian American Studies and traces the persistence of what it calls the “idealized critical subject,” a theoretical figure that operates throughout Asian American literary culture and cultural criticism. To understand the fraught relationship between identity politics and literary representation, the book analyzes texts from different moments in the history of Asian American literature, including those by Eileen Chang, Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Chang-rae Lee, Michael Ondaatje, and Jose Garcia Villa. It looks at the referential limits of Asian America while remaining cognizant of its so-called “real-life referents.” The book also examines Georg Lukács's History and Class Consciousness, which illustrates how the relationship between knowledge and subjectivity can be theorized through an idealized critical subject.
