Aesthetics 3 - Georg Lukács - Hayalperest Publishing House

For centuries, thinkers have been preoccupied with questions about the source of "beauty" in art and life, where art "comes from," and its essence. These questions, which concern not only art history but also many fields such as history, philosophy, sociology, and anthropology, aim to shed light on the phenomena underlying human "taste" and creative acts.

This seminal text, Aesthetics by Hungarian philosopher Georg Lukács, provides a comprehensive answer to all these questions.

In this vast work, which he labored on for more than fifty years, called "the work of my life," and was only able to complete partially before his death, Lukács undertakes for the first time to compare Marxism with art within a philosophical theory.

Lukács builds his aesthetic theory upon a broad history of thought, starting from ancient philosophers like Aristotle, Plato, and Epicurus, extending to Bacon, Diderot, Hegel, Lessing, Goethe, and Heidegger, and further to Marx, Engels, and Lenin. Starting with magic in prehistoric times, he treats art as a phenomenon that did not exist initially but gained existence through historical processes and derives its source from daily life.

In this intense philosophical study, Lukács examines the factors behind the existence of works of art from historical, phenomenological, and ontological perspectives, and by internalizing thousands of years of accumulated knowledge before him, he puts forth a socialist aesthetic theory.

Since its publication, Aesthetics has continued to influence works in this field.

Product Features

• Author: Georg Lukács
• Translator: Ahmet Cemal
• Publisher: Hayalperest Yayınevi
• Volume: 3rd Volume
• Page Count: 196
• Dimensions: 13.5 x 19.5 cm
• Cover: Softcover
• Paper Type: 60 gr Book Paper
• ISBN: 9786258253726