Specificity of the Aesthetic, Volume 1

György Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic.Erik M. Bachman is a Lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is author of Literary Obscenities: U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism, and he has also published numerous essays on modernism, film, and Lukács.Tyrus Miller is the Dean of the School of Humanities at the University of California at Irvine. He has published and edited many notable monographs and essays on modernism, critical theory, and the avant-garde.

“The late Lukács called for a renaissance of Marxism. More than 50 years having gone by, Bachman’s twenty-first century translation of a twentieth-century Marxist aesthetic is truly timely in contributing to a renaissance of dialectical materialism of art and the everyday.”—Pu Wang, Socialism and Democracy

• Preface 2–21Chapter 1 Issues of Reflection in Everyday Life 22–115Chapter 2 The Disanthropomorphisation of Reflection in Science 116–173Chapter 3 Preliminary Issues of the Disentanglement of Art from Everyday Life as a Matter of Principle 174–213Chapter 4 The Abstract Forms of the Aesthetic Reflection of Reality 214–301Chapter 5 Issues of Mimesis I: The Coming into Being of Aesthetic Reflection 302–380Chapter 6 Issues of Mimesis II: The Path to the Worldedness of Art 381–461Chapter 7 Issues of Mimesis III: The Path of the Subject to Aesthetic Reflection 462–537Chapter 8 Issues of Mimesis IV: The World Proper to Works of Art 538–607Chapter 9 Issues of Mimesis V: The Defetishising Mission of Art 608–679Chapter 10 Issues of Mimesis VI: Universal Features of the Subject-Object Relationship in Aesthetics 680–746