A Study Of Lukacs' Thoughts On Essay

The essay advocated by Georg Lukacs not only serves as a traditional writing style in the West,but also as a "form" based on art and representing life judgment.It brings daily life to "real life" and takes task of re-formation of life.It contains the author's profound spiritual reality and world view,which is an artistic science between literature and philosophy.The essay is rooted in the ideal of establishing a total society and is aesthetically characterized as a narrative space of "holistic aesthetics".It is an aesthetic intermediary of the early German romantic thoughts in the context of daily life,creatively reproducing and transforming daily life,in order to achieve the artisticization of society as well as to explore the possibility of reshaping life.Essay is the main presentation of Lukacs' s Soul and Form and related critical articles.As an art form subject to strict philosophical and aesthetic regulations,it is positioned under the ideal of "totality" and has a close relationship between narrative,ethics and experience.Lukacs himself actively engaged in the creation of essays,demonstrating his pioneering insights and practice in this field.At the beginning of twentieth century,Lukacs,for the first time,from the construction of methodology and the creation of specific items,developed essay theory from the concept of stylistics to a speculative form of thinking and deepened it into a whole way of thinking that covers literature,philosophy and aesthetics,which gave new definition and new thoughts to the content and form of essay.