The Theory of the Novel

The Theory of the Novel by Georg Lukacs. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780262620277.

Georg Lukács wrote The Theory of the Novel in 1914-1915, a period that also saw the conception of Rosa Luxemburgs Spartacus Letters, Lenins Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Spenglers Decline of the West, and Ernst Blochs Spirit of Utopia. Like many of Lukácss early essays, it is a radical critique of bourgeois culture and stems from a specific Central European philosophy of life and tradition of dialectical idealism whose originators include Kant, Hegel, Novalis, Marx, Kierkegaard, Simmel, Weber, and Husserl. The Theory of the Novel marks the transition of the Hungarian philosopher from Kant to Hegel and was Lukácss last great work before he turned to Marxism-Leninism.