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The first study to make use of Lukàcs's theory of realism to understand contemporary cultural phenomena more broadly and in the fields of art and television in particular.
Adam Geczy focuses on contemporary cultural trends and problems to demonstrate the continuing relevance of Georg Lukács' philosophy. The Marxist critic Lukács wrote in defence of realism in art, and especially in literature. Geczy shows why there is a growing need to return to realism in both theory and practice, given the predominance of cultural practices that rely on representative and narrative devices, ones that speak directly to the conditions of the present.
Geczy applies Lukács' philosophical aesthetics to examples in contemporary film, television and graphic literature. We see that realism for Lukács has a profoundly ethical caste. From it emerge issues such as the moral duty of the author, the aptness of the work of art, and its capacity to bring knowledge and insight to the life-world in which it is read or received. Approached from this aesthetic standpoint, Geczy presents the many cultural wars waged in the new millennium as between what is real and authentic as opposed to the mendacious and abstruse.
In rethinking realism with Lukács, Geczy brings earlier theories up to date and provides a compelling new way of looking at how and why we engage in today's cultural practices.
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Table of Contents
1. Reification and Digital Alienation
2. Mass Hypnosis, Irrationalism and Political Extremism
The Grand Hotel Abyss
Nietzsche as Grand Irrationalist
3. Realism and the Social Impulse
A Short History of Realism
The Social Impulse
4. Realism and Its Enemies
Naturalism
Abstraction and (New) Materialism
Expressionism and Social Media
5. Critical Realism From Great to Critical Realism
The Adornostreit
A Problem of Character: Types
Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
6. The Demonic Character, Passion and Misunderstanding
Goethe and Demonic Character
Creation as Luciferian
Misunderstanding, Morality and Pathology
7. Historical Novels (and Films and TV)
History, Time and Duration
The Beginning of the Historical Novel
The Historic Novel After the “Classic” Phase
8. Fantastical and Non-Euclidian Worlds
Fairy Tales
From Fairy-Tale to the Fantastical
World-Building
Conclusion: The Realism of Standup Comedy
Product details
| Published | 29 Oct 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781350599543 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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