sthetizistische Kulturkritik und ethische Utopie

This study examines philosophical questions regarding the limitations of formalism and how they might be overcome. It presents a critical reconstruction of the early work of Georg Lukács, which attempted to supplement a unique form of aesthetic cultural critique with a Dostoyevskian-styled ethical utopia. Demonstrating the unity and the aporias of this two-track approach, it sheds new light on Lukács's Marxist turn at the end of 1918.