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György Lukács

Notes on Georg Simmel's Lessons, 1906/07, and on a "Sociology of Art," c. 1909

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György Lukács
Notes on Georg Simmel's Lessons, 1906/07, and on a "Sociology of Art," c. 1909

By György Lukács, introduction by Lívia Páldi

Series: dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken No. 005

English/German

2011. 48 pp., facsimile

14.90 x 21.00 cm
softcover

available

ISBN 978-3-7757-2854-6

In 1973, an employee of the Deutsche Bank in Heidelberg identified the influential sociologist of literature and Marxist György Lukács (1885–1971) as the owner of a mass of material that had been deposited there in 1917. Among the sixteen hundred letters and text fragments of the collection, known as the “Heidelberg Suitcase” among researchers, was the notebook that has been partially reproduced in this publication. The content of the notebook is in two parts: In the front are notes Lukács took in German during lectures by Georg Simmel on “Logic and Problems of Contemporary Philosophy,” held at the Berlin University in 1906. A few years later, Lukács used the notebook again and, starting from its end, wrote in Hungarian a draft with the title “Sociology of Art.”

With an introduction by Lívia Páldi, Chief Curator at the Mucsarnok/Kunsthalle Budapest and Agent for dOCUMENTA (13).

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