The Philosophy of the Novel: Lukács, Marxism and the Dialectics of Form

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 9
Introduction......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 25
1 Introduction: Between Social Theory and Philosophy......Page 26
2 Reification and Contemplation......Page 30
3 Metacritique: On the Antinomies of Bourgeois Thought......Page 40
4 History as Philosophy (of Praxis and Truth)......Page 47
5 Literature as a Cultural Practice......Page 59
II: Lukács\'s Aesthetic: The Epic and the Novel......Page 69
1 A World Without Subjects......Page 74
2 Subjectivity as Alienation......Page 80
3 Progress or Regress?......Page 87
4 The Question of Totality......Page 90
5 The Absent Origins of Representation......Page 94
1 From Tragedy to the Crisis of Culture......Page 102
2 Form and Life......Page 109
3 \'The Sense of the World must lie outside the World\'......Page 118
4 Form-Giving and Mimesis: Dialectical Fictions......Page 124
1 Schematism......Page 134
2 The Right-Wing Epistemology......Page 143
3 The Romanticism of Disillusionment......Page 145
4 Time as Form......Page 147
5 The Time of 1848......Page 165
6 Dialectical Reading: A Coda......Page 170
1 The Deliberation......Page 172
2 The Cartesian Novel......Page 182
3 The Problematic Individual......Page 190
4 The Absolute Novel: Fictions and Paralogisms......Page 198
VI: Transcendental Dialectic: Irony as Form......Page 210
1 Narrative Irony......Page 212
2 Objectivity: \'a surface riddled with holes\'......Page 218
3 Irony as Freedom and Self-Consciousness......Page 228
4 The Ironic Self and Language......Page 235
5 History and Transcendental Subjectivity......Page 245
VII: Practical Reason: Marxism and Modernism......Page 253
1 Metaphysical Reification or Empirical Reduction?......Page 256
2 Modernism and Dialectic......Page 264
3 Modernism and the Self......Page 271
4 Narrative and Anti-Narrative......Page 277
Notes......Page 293
K......Page 317
Z......Page 318
H......Page 319
T......Page 320
W......Page 321