Lukacs argues that modernist writers such as James Joyce and Franz Kafka make technique an end in itself, without regard for the human realities that this technique is supposed to convey.
This "negation of outward reality" is a central project of modernist writing, which represents a turning away from the world and a retreat into an aesthetic realm divorced from social reality. And this disengagement is in direct complicity with the main cultural thrust of bourgeois society, which seeks to isolate art in a separate realm and thus deprive it of any potentially subversive political force. Modernist texts are thus for Lukacs not progressive documents interacting with history in a positive and productive way.
Instead they are sterile artifacts divorced from history and totally caught up in the inexorable drive of capitalist society to convert all it touches into mere commodities.
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This "negation of outward reality" is a central project of modernist writing, which represents a turning away from the world and a retreat into an aesthetic realm divorced from social reality. And this disengagement is in direct complicity with the main cultural thrust of bourgeois society, which seeks to isolate art in a separate realm and thus deprive it of any potentially subversive political force. Modernist texts are thus for Lukacs not progressive documents interacting with history in a positive and productive way.
Instead they are sterile artifacts divorced from history and totally caught up in the inexorable drive of capitalist society to convert all it touches into mere commodities.
Download ebooks on http://www.frenchtheory.com/
See that post with different algorithms in metabole
See the journal French Metablog with today different posts
