Tertium datur. Lukács’ Early Aesthetics and Ethics as Mirrored in Die Eigenart des Ästhetischen
Tertium datur. Lukács’ Early Aesthetics and Ethics as Mirrored in Die Eigenart des Ästhetischen

Summary/Abstract: Considering common compartmentalizations of Lukacs’ work into the early, mature, and late phase, the article explores elements that speak to what critics regard as a ›continuity thesis‹. Against possible assumptions on the prevalence of form in his early work and the dominance of the aesthetics of content in the later phases, the article explores the dialectical relationship of form and content, which comes to represent a leitmotif in Lukacs’ work as a whole. Here, the early specificity of form does not consist of its domination over content but in the inability of the aesthetic to tackle the social problems of a modernity in which art and life part ways.

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