The concept of Märchen (fairy tale) in the young György Lukács

• Autor(a) principal: Chicote, Francisco Garcia
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Signótica (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufg.br/sig/article/view/65361
• topic: Western Marxism; Theory of Literary Genres; Critique of Culture; Marxismo occidental; Teoría de los géneros literarios; Crítica de la cultura; Marxismo ocidental; Teoria dos gêneros literários; Crítica da cultura

The article examines György Lukács’s early works from the perspective of his concept of Märchen (fairy tale). It thus sheds light upon a somewhat underexplored – but nonetheless crucial – aspect of the young philosopher’s work: his attempt to overcome the strict dualism in which the emerging German sociological thought was rooted, and to intellectually prove the possibility of a dignified human existence. Such an attempt does not only confront the concepts of Märchen and tragedy in Lukács’ early conceptualization of literary genres, it also turns the former into a sort of “touchstone” in the search of forms of literature that assume a dialectically conditioned relationship between subject and object, and, furthermore, into an adequate means for a revolutionary pedagogy.