Ethical Commitments and Modes of Temporality in later Georg Lukács

SZALÓ, Csaba. Ethical Commitments and Modes of Temporality in later Georg Lukács. In Walter Pape, Jiří Šubrt. Mitteleuropa denken : Intellektuelle, Identitäten und Ideen. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019, p. 309-322. ISBN 978-3-11-053501-3. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110536003-022.

Basic information

• Original name: Ethical Commitments and Modes of Temporality in later Georg Lukács
• Authors: SZALÓ, Csaba (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Berlin, Mitteleuropa denken : Intellektuelle, Identitäten und Ideen, p. 309-322, 14 pp. 2019.
• Publisher: De Gruyter

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Chapter(s) of a specialized book
• Field of Study: 50401 Sociology
• Country of publisher: Germany
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/19:00108989
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• ISBN: 978-3-11-053501-3
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110536003-022
• UT WoS: 000513771100022
• Keywords in English: hermeneutics; cultural sociology; interpretation; social ontology; aesthetics
• Tags: rivok, topvydavatel
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

My interpretation of Lukács’ late texts does not aim to resolve the conflict between externalist and internalist models of interpretation. Therefore, my aim is not methodological. I am following the perspective of cultural sociology in dealing with Lukács and his texts. The oeuvre of Georg Lukács is not a closed field with an already revealed essence. Rather, his name signifies an open domain of meaning, whose character is not fixed but is continually revised by application. This open domain of meaning is perhaps mediated by what hermeneutics conceives as historically effected consciousness.The openness of Lukács’ oeuvre also stands for future applications, dependent upon recently unknown historical situations. Simply, I claim the importance of a reconstructive, hermeneutic engagement with the horizon of expectations both in Lukács’ texts as well as in the case of their applications.

Links

• MUNI/A/0937/2017, interní kód MU: Name: Migration in a Globalized World: Cultural Sociological Perspectives (Acronym: MIGLO)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A