Eloge of the Avantgarde

Gunnar Hindrichs; Frank Ruda; Heather Yeung

Eloge of the Avantgarde

Gunnar Hindrichs, Frank Ruda (Translator), Heather Yeung (Translator)

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The avantgarde in the arts has been integrated into present society at the price of ignoring its intimate conceptual connection with the political avantgarde. This political avantgarde was defined by Lenin. The article reconstructs its concept in modal terms, drawing on Lukács’ idea that the communist party is the ‘objective possibility of revolutionary praxis and emendating it by Bloch’s concept of ‘real possibility. On these lines, a metaphysical framework of the party model becomes explicit.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	190-203
Number of pages	14
Journal	Crisis and Critique
Volume	11
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - 20 Dec 2024

Keywords

Avantgarde
Vanguardism
Party
Possibility
Metaphysics
Lenin
Lukács
Bloch

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