Velvet Howler » Self-Narrative http://velvethowler.com So much more than you wanted. Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:33:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 ★ Lukács on Self-Narrative http://velvethowler.com/2010/01/22/lukacs-on-self-narrative/ http://velvethowler.com/2010/01/22/lukacs-on-self-narrative/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:16:40 +0000 Bryan http://velvethowler.com/?p=4130 History and Class Consciousness, which I just started reading tonight (and very much enjoying):
I think that I would be departing from the truth if I were to attempt to iron out the glaring contradictions of that period by artificially constructing an organic development and fitting into the correct pigeon-hole in the ‘history of ideas’. If Faust could have two souls within his breast, why should not a normal person unite conflicting intellectual trends within himself when he finds himself changing from one class to another in the middle of a world crisis?
]]> I sort of wish I had written something like this in the opening of my graduate application statement of purpose, taken from Georg Lukács’s 1967 preface to History and Class Consciousness, which I just started reading tonight (and very much enjoying):

I think that I would be departing from the truth if I were to attempt to iron out the glaring contradictions of that period by artificially constructing an organic development and fitting into the correct pigeon-hole in the ‘history of ideas’. If Faust could have two souls within his breast, why should not a normal person unite conflicting intellectual trends within himself when he finds himself changing from one class to another in the middle of a world crisis?

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