Soul and Form

This collection of literary essays, which first appeared in Hungarian in 1910 when the author was only twenty-five, and in German the following year, was Georg Lukács' first published book. Many of the themes that dominate his later work are already to be found in these youthful writings—the idea of totality, the nature of form, the role of essayist and critic, the significance of gesture.

György Lukács (1885-1971) is the author of Theory of the Novel, History and Class Consciousness, The Destruction of Reason, and The Ontology of Social Being, among many other works. John T. Sanders is professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of The Ethical Argument Against Government and coeditor of both Debating the State of Philosophy: Habermas, Rorty, and Kolakowski and For and Against the State: New Philosophical Readings. Katie Terezakis is assistant professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the author of The Immanent Word: The Turn to Language in German Philosophy, 1759-1801 and the editor of Engaging Agnes Heller: A Critical Companion. Judith Butler is the Maxine Eliot Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley and author of Gender Trouble, The Psychic Life of Power, and Subjects of Desire, among other works. Anna Bostock is also the translator of Lukács's The Theory of the Novel.