Modernity, Ethics and Art in the Early Work of Lukács

The young Lukács sought the transcendence of soul and form, self and objectifications, the antinomies of ideas and reality. His early work and early essays in the Hungarian and German press, the essays of Soul and Form, The History of Development of the Modern Drama, Heidelberg Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics and The Theory of the Novel, show how Lukács dealt with the age of modernity, the connection to universality, and to the forms of life and the ethical issues which emerged. Lukács claimed that art anticipates freedom and perfection, and connects man with universality.