The Politics of Nature, Left and Right: Comparing the Ontologies of Georg Lukács and Bruno Latour

Miracles rarely appear in novels, yet Graham Greene includes several of them in The End of the Affair. Sarah Miles heals a boy suffering from appendicitis and a man with a disfigured cheek. Like a saint, she seems to heal or revive through her compassionate touch, as when she raises her lover, who may or may not have died in a bomb blast, by touching his hand. This chapter locates Sarah’s interventions amidst debates about miracles, beginning with David Hume’s sceptical rejection of inexplicable phenomena, through such mid-century books as C. S. Lewis’s Miracles and Dorothy Sayers’ The Mind of the Maker. The inherent godlessness of novels, as Georg Lukacs puts the matter in Theory of the Novel, would seem to ban mystical content altogether from novelistic discourse. Yet this chapter argues for the revaluation of mystical content—the ordeals of the whisky priest in The Power and the Glory, for example—within the generic precincts of the novel.

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„Der Weg zum Werk“: Werkkonzepte zwischen Kunst, Essayistik und Wissenschaft bei Georg Lukács

Das Werk ◽

10.1515/9783110525885-017 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 419-476 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Andrea Albrecht

Keyword(s):

Georg Lukacs ◽

Georg Lukács

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Racionalismo e reificação em História e consciência de classe

Tempo Social ◽

10.11606/0103-2070.ts.2018.145907 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 5-24

Author(s):

Ricardo Musse

Keyword(s):

Karl Marx ◽

Georg Lukacs ◽

Georg Lukács

História e consciência de classe é considerado, consensualmente, como um dos marcos de fundação do marxismo ocidental. Sua contribuição para a gênese da teoria crítica tampouco pode ser desprezada. O presente artigo procura mostrar como alguns conceitos decisivos do arcabouço teórico da Escola de Frankfurt foram desenvolvidos em 1923 por Georg Lukács. Destaca, sobretudo, os conceitos de reificação e racionalismo. História e consciência de classe considera a reificação, seguindo uma trilha aberta por Karl Marx, o fenômeno central da sociedade capitalista. O racionalismo é exposto em duas dimensões articuladas, na esfera do pensamento – em especial na ciência e na filosofia –, e no âmbito da vida material, como racionalidade econômica.

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Politics of Nature: The board game

Social Studies of Science ◽

10.1177/0306312720983907 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 51 (1) ◽

pp. 139-164

Author(s):

Jakob Raffn ◽

Frederik Lassen

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Status Quo ◽

Board Game ◽

Bruno Latour ◽

Political Ontology ◽

The Status ◽

Group Ideation ◽

Politics Of Nature

Here we introduce the board game Politics of Nature, or PoN as it is now known. Inspired by the work of Bruno Latour, PoN offers an alternative take on co-existence by implementing a flat political ontology in a gamified meeting protocol. PoN does not suggest that humans have no special abilities, only that humans at the outset, are bestowed with no more rights than other kinds of beings. Designed to enable people of all walks of life to playfully unpack and resolve controversies, PoN provides a space where beings can have their existence renegotiated. The aim of PoN is to play as a team to explore and decide on potential good common worlds in which more indispensable beings can exist than if the status quo is continued. By playing PoN iteratively through rounds, each having four stages, the players gradually construct PoN - a planet mirroring ‘real worlds’. The four stages provide a novel combination of identification, representation, meditation, prioritization, mapping, individual and group ideation, proposal formulation, and decision-making; only to ask the players to challenge and change PoN to fit their requirements after each round. What follows is taken directly from the manual.

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Hegel and Lukács on the Novel

Hegel Bulletin ◽

10.1017/s0263523200000045 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 31 (02) ◽

pp. 23-34 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Allen Speight

Keyword(s):

Significant Influence ◽

The Novel ◽

Georg Lukacs ◽

Philosophy Of Literature ◽

The World ◽

Theory Of The Novel ◽

Prose Literature ◽

Georg Lukács

That Hegel was a significant influence on the young Georg Lukács'Theory of the Novelis a point few would dispute. Lukács himself insisted that the first part of TN represented his own transition from Kantian to Hegelian theory, and most critics have subsequently affirmed the importance of Hegel to Lukács' pre- (or, depending on one's view, proto-) Marxist argument inTN. Yet the two are in some ways strange to take together in the context of novelistic theory. Despite the profusion of novelistic literature in his own time and his own significant appropriation of it for the limning of essential moments of the development of the world-historical spirit, Hegel's officialAestheticshardly presents what one could claim to be an especially worked-outtheoryof the novel. TheAestheticstakes up literature in general primarily under the rubric of providing a theory of the genres ofpoetry— epic, lyric and dramatic — and what relatively few words Hegel actually devotes to the novel and prose literature in the lectures are tucked in corners: at the end of the discussion of the development of the epic, in the discussion of the historical form of the romantic, and in scattered comments elsewhere. As forTN, despite the strong connections some have drawn between Hegel and Lukács — Peter Demetz said that Lukács was ‘in a certain sense … the last Hegelian in the grand style’ (Demetz 1967: 215) — others have questioned whether Lukács' work should be regarded primarily as making a contribution to the philosophy of literature in the tradition from which Hegel writes.

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