Lukacs After Communism

Interviews with Contemporary Intellectuals

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by Eva L. Corredor

Duke University Press

Due/Published April 1997, 224 pages, paper

ISBN 082231763X

Leading intellectuals discuss the continued importance of Gyorgy Lukács and his influence on their work. Who are the leading intellectuals? Etienne Balibar, Peter BŸrger, Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson, Jacques Leenhardt, Michael Lšwy, Roberto Schwarz, George Steiner (the man with the normal tri-lingual childhood), Susan Suleiman, and Cornel West. Corredor conducted interviews with all for the purpose of reconsidering the Luk‡csean legacy and to speculate on Marxist theory's prospects for the coming decades.