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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998.

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General.

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Reflects the extraordinary scope and topicality of Lukács and Frankfurt School thoughtBuilds on author's decades of research and previous publication on Lukács and Frankfurt School, including editing and translation of Hungarian language texts by Lukács, his Modernism and the Frankfurt School book, and numerous published essays and book chaptersBrings Lukács and key figures of the Frankfurt School in dialogue with other influential thinkers, for instance Lukács with Bloch and Marcuse, Adorno with Clement Greenberg and Bernard Stiegler, Benjamin/Adorno/Marcuse with Bataille/Blanchot/KlossowskiRepresents a unique selection and range of interdisciplinary and intermedial perspectives, from philosophy to literary, visual, and music studies to social and political theoryDraws upon sources in English, German, Hungarian, French, and Italian, expanding the understanding of key theorists beyond English-translated sourcesThis book examines the heritage of critical theory from the Hungarian Marxist philosopher Georg Lukács through the early Frankfurt School up to current issues of authoritarian politics and democratisation. Interweaving discussion of art and literature, utopian thought, and the dialectics of high art and mass culture, it offers unique perspectives on an interconnected group of left-wing intellectuals who sought to understand and resist their society's systemic impoverishment of thought and experience. Starting from Lukács's reflections on art, utopia, and historical action, it progresses to the Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor W. Adorno's analyses of music, media, avant-garde and kitsch. It concludes with discussions of erotic utopia, authoritarianism, postsocialism, and organised deceit in show trials - topics in which the legacy of Lukács and Frankfurt School critical theory continues to be relevant today.

Philosophy, Hungarian --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General.

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This book weaves together three themes at the intersection of Jacques Lacan and the philosophical tradition. The first is the question of time and memory. How do these problems call for a revision of Lacan’s purported “ahistoricism,” and how does the temporality of the subject in Lacan intersect with the questions of temporality initiated by Heidegger and then developed by contemporary French philosophy? The second question concerns the status of the body in Lacanian theory, especially in connection with emotion and affect, which Lacanian theory is commonly thought to ignore, but which the concept of jouissance was developed to address. Finally, it aims to explore, beyond the strict limits of Lacanian theory, possible points of intersection between psychoanalysis and other domains, including questions of race, biology, and evolutionary theory.By stressing the question of affect, the book shows how Lacan’s position cannot be reduced to the structuralist models he nevertheless draws upon, and thus how the problem of the body may be understood as a formation that marks the limits of language. Exploring the anthropological category of “race” within a broadly evolutionary perspective, it shows how Lacan’s elaboration of the “imaginary” and the “symbolic” might allow us to explain human physiological diversity without reducing it to a cultural or linguistic construction or allowing “race” to remain as a traditional biological category. Here again the questions of history and temporality are paramount, and open the possibility for a genuine dialogue between psychoanalysis and biology.Finally, the book engages literary texts. Antigone, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Hamlet, and even Wordsworth become the muses who oblige psychoanalysis and philosophy to listen once again to the provocations of poetry, which always disrupts our familiar notions of time and memory, of history and bodily or affective experience, and of subjectivity itself.

Lacan, Jacques, --- Lacan, Jacques --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General.

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"A lively and comprehensive account of the whole tradition of European fiction for students and teachers of comparative literature, this volume covers twenty-five of the most significant and influential novelists in Europe from Cervantes to Kundera. Each essay examines an author's use of, and contributions to, the genre and also engages an important aspect of the form, such as its relation to romance or one of its sub-genres, such as the Bildungsroman. Larger theoretical questions are introduced through specific readings of exemplary novels. Taking a broad historical and geographic view, the essays keep in mind the role the novel itself has played in the development of European national identities and in cultural history over the last four centuries. While conveying essential introductory information for new readers, these authoritative essays reflect up-to-date scholarship and also review, and sometimes challenge, conventional accounts"--

European fiction --- Literary criticism / european / general. --- History and criticism.

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This book confronts the history and legitimacy of Western Universalism. In the form of conversations, it documents thinking-in-process about how new forms of universality after hegemonic universalism can be thought and practised. Bringing into play their practices and theories, the interlocutors of Universalism(e) & … lay their own traces of a minor universality, situated in the troubling present of our times. Ce livre s’attaque à l'histoire et à la légitimité de l’universalisme occidental. Sous la forme de conversations, il documente la réflexion en cours sur les façons de penser et de pratiquer de nouvelles formes d’universalité après l’universalisme hégémonique. À partir de leurs pratiques et de leurs théories, les interlocuteurs d’Universalism(e) & . font apparaître leur propre cheminement autour de cette universalité mineure située dans le présent troublant de notre époque. Universalism(e) & … révolution, histoires concrètes, préhistoire, multiláteralisme, savoir(s), the partisan position, narration, reparation Entretiens avec / Conversations with: Arjun Appadurai, Leyla Dakhli, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Giovanni Levi, Gisèle Sapiro, David Scott, Adania Shibli, Maria Stavrinaki

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General. --- decoloniality. --- narration. --- universalism (critique of). --- universality.