Theory of the novel

Synopsis

Georg lukács wrote the theory of the novel in 1914-1915, a period that also saw the conception of rosa luxemburg's spartacus letters, lenin's imperialism: the highest stage of capitalism, spengler's decline of the west, and ernst bloch's spirit of utopia. Like many of lukács's early essays, it is a radical critique of bourgeois culture and stems from a specific central european philosophy of life and tradition of dialectical idealism whose originators include kant, hegel, novalis, marx, kierkegaard, simmel, weber, and husserl.