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Realism in the Balance - Realism in the Balance is a 1938 essay by Georg LukÃ¡cs in which he defends the "traditional" realism of authors like Thomas Mann in the face of rising Modernist movements, such as Expressionism, Surrealism, and Naturalism. Practitioners of these movements, such as James Joyce, placed an emphasis on displaying the discord and disenchantment of modern life through ...
Western Marxism - Western Marxism is a term used to describe a wide variety of Marxist theoreticians based in Western and Central Europe (and more recently North America), in contrast with philosophy in the Soviet Union. While Georg LukÃ¡cs's History and Class Consciousness and Karl Korsch]'s Marxism and Philosophy first published in [[1923], are often seen as the works which inaugurated this current, the phrase itself was coined much later by [[Maurice Merleau-Ponty.