Engaged with questions of realist and modernist world-views in art, the relations of literary history to politics, and the role of cultural intellectuals in public life, this book of essays collects some of Lukács most influential writings. Translated into english for the time, these pieces offer a new look at one of the most significant Marxist thinkers of the twentieth-century.

The first volume in an effort to make available to an english speaking audience the full breadth of Luckács work