Das Subjekt als Gemeinwesen

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Telios
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Collective Agency ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Plastic Body ◽  
Louis Althusser ◽  
Georg Lukacs ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Individual Existence ◽  
Georg Lukács

Following Marx s dictum that man ‘in his individual existence is at the same time a social being’, this book explores the question of collective agency. The author’s argument is that, thanks to its social construction as a collective being, the subject is afforded the chance to engage in collective practices. This socioontological justification of collective agency brings with it an anti-normative view of collective struggles, which are no longer subject to the burden of moral regulations and identical policies. In a first step, the author interprets Karl Marx’s concept of the subject as a social being and explicates it through the concept of communist subjectivity based on Jean-Luc Nancy. In a second step and by applying the theories of Georg Lukács, Louis Althusser and Judith Butler, the author shows how the subject emerges at the intersection between labour, language and bodily practices. In a third step, the concept of the plastic body, which the author borrows from Catherine Malabou’s concept of plasticity, serves to illustrate how the different identities encounter each other in the subject’s body and how they relate to one another. Seen this way, the subject, which is originally structured as a collective, can determine itself if it acts according to its structuration, i.e. if it acts collectively.

Cinematic Realism

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Aitken
Keyword(s):  
Edmund Husserl ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Georg Lukacs ◽  
Siegfried Kracauer ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Georg Lukács

This book explores the subject of cinematic realism through a long Introduction which covers general notions related to cinematic realism, and then through close analysis of book chapters written by Siegfried Kracauer and Georg Lukács. The theories of Edmund Husserl and Henri Bergson are also covered. The long Introduction attempts to set out a model of cinematic realism based on a philosophical realist and ‘externalist’ position. This is followed by an introductory chapter on Bergson, which serves as a foundation for the following four chapters, which cover the work of Lukács. The same structure is then repeated for Kracauer: an introductory chapter on Husserl is followed by four chapters on Kracauer.

Before Beauvoir, Before Butler

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Offen
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
French Tradition ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter reveals and documents a centuries-old but long forgotten history of pioneering French thought about “genre masculin/genre féminin” (which we refer to in English as gender) that alludes not strictly to grammar but specifically to the social construction of sex. The recuperation of this history antedates the publications of Simone de Beauvoir and, later, Judith Butler. It suggests that Beauvoir’s famous sentence in Le deuxième sexe, whose interpretation is the subject of this book’s essays, fits into a venerable French tradition of acknowledging the social construction of masculinity and femininity, or the male/female dichotomy. Nevertheless, it was received by Anglophone intellectuals, especially feminist intellectuals of the 1960s–1970s, as a startling innovation. Indeed, it may well be that the notion of “gender/genre” is not an unwelcome American invention, as the French have stated in recent years, but Anglophone writers initially appropriated the notion from this older French usage.

The Major Realist Film Theorists

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Film Theory ◽  
New Model ◽  
Georg Lukacs ◽  
Siegfried Kracauer ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Important Field ◽  
Extensive Introduction ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Andre Bazin ◽  
Georg Lukács

This book explores the ideas of four ‘major realist film theorists’: John Grierson, André Bazin, Georg Lukács and Siegfried Kracauer. Each of these figures has three chapters each devoted to themselves. In addition, an extensive introduction of some 18,000 words, written by Ian Aitken, provides a general over view of the subject of cinematic realism, and attempts to develop a new model of cinematic realism in relation to various philosophical positions. In this critical anthology – the first collection to address the work of these four theorists in one volume – a wide range of international scholars explore the interconnections between the ideas of these theorists and help generate new understandings of this important field, reviving interest in these figures in the process. Challenging preconceptions about ‘classical’ film theory and the nature of realist representation, this invaluable collection helps to return the realist paradigm to the forefront of academic enquiry.

L'évolution de la pensée de Georg Lukács

1971 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Tertulian
Keyword(s):  
Georg Lukacs ◽  
Georg Lukács

Saints and Miracles: The End of the Affair

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Hepburn
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Graham Greene ◽  
Georg Lukacs ◽  
Dorothy Sayers ◽  
Theory Of The Novel ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Georg Lukács

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.

scholarly journals Racionalismo e reificação em ​História e consciência de classe

Tempo Social ◽  
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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