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Table of contents :
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION: Hungarian Intellectuals in War and Revolution, 1914–1919
PART ONE: THE COMMUNISTS
ONE Georg Lukács: The Road to Lenin
TWO. Béla Balázs: The Road to the Party
PART TWO: THE AVANT-GARDE
THREE. Lajos Kassák: The Ma Circle
FOUR. László Moholy-Nagy: The Bauhaus
PART THREE: THE LIBERALS
FIVE. Aurel Kolnai: The Path to Rome
SIX. Karl Mannheim: The Sociology of Knowledge
CONCLUSION: Community and Consciousness
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

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EXILE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT

EXILE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT HUNGARIAN INTELLECTUALS IN GERMANY AND AUSTRIA, 1919-1933

Lee Congdon

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY

COPYRIGHT©1991 BY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLISHED BY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 41 WILLIAM STREET, PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY 08540 IN THE UNITED KINGDOM: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATAUXJINQ-IN-PUBLICATION DATA CONGDON, LEE, 1939EXILE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT: HUNGARIAN INTELLECTUALS IN GERMANY AND AUSTRIA, 1919-1933 / BY LEE CONGDON. P. CM. INCLUDES BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES AND INDEX. ISBN 0-691-03159-2 1. INTELLECTUALS—HUNGARY—HISTORY—20TH CENTURY. 2. INTELLECTUALS—GERMANY—HISTORY—20TH CENTURY. 3. INTELLECTUALS—AUSTRIA—HISTORY—20TH CENTURY. 4. HUNGARY—EXILES—HISTORY—20TH CENTURY. 5. GERMANY—EXILES—HISTORY—20TH CENTURY. 6. AUSTRIA—EXILES—HISTORY—20TH CENTURY. 7. SOCIOLOGY—HUNGARY—HISTORY—20TH CENTURY 8. SOCIOLOGY—GERMANY—HISTORY—20TH CENTURY. 9. SOCIOLOGY—AUSTRIA—HISTORY—20TH CENTURY. I. TITLE. HM213.C55

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CONTENTS

LISTOF ILLUSTRATIONS

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PREFACE xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XV INTRODUCTION

Hungarian Intellectuals in War and Revolution, 1914—1919 3 PART ONE: THE COMMUNISTS 43 ONE

Georg Luk£cs: The Road to Lenin 45 TWO

Bila Bal£zs: The Road to the Party

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PART TWO: THE AVANT-GARDE 137 THREE

Lajos Kassik: The Ma Circle 139 FOUR

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