The Transformation from Being to Dasein: Agnes Heller's Neo-Marxist Aesthetics as a Breakthrough on Lukács' Theoretical Framework

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2014, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (2): 123-129.

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The Transformation from Being to Dasein: Agnes Heller's Neo-Marxist Aesthetics as a Breakthrough on Lukács' Theoretical Framework

Fu Qilin

College of Literature and Journalism at Sichuan University (Chengdu 610064, China)

Online:2014-04-25 Published:2014-06-09
About author:Fu Qilin, Ph.D., is a professor and the vice-dean of College of Literature and Journalism at Sichuan University (Chengdu 610064, China), with research focus on foreign Marxist aesthetics.

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Abstract: Agnes Heller's neo-Marxist aesthetics is based on the individual construction of Dasein and the human condition of contingency, and it can be argued as a breakthrough of Lukács' aesthetics of Being. By way of humanist aesthetics, she accomplishes the transformation from the philosophy of consciousness into the selective construction of everyday life. This transformation is doubtlessly a great contribution to postmodernist Marxist aesthetics, and is valuable for both theory and practicum in the era of contemporary socialism and late capitalism or postmodern human condition.

Key words: Georg Lukács, Agnes Heller, Neo-Marxism, aesthetics of Being, aesthetics of Dasein

Fu Qilin. The Transformation from Being to Dasein: Agnes Heller's Neo-Marxist Aesthetics as a Breakthrough on Lukács' Theoretical Framework[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2014, 34(2): 123-129.

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