The Faust Variations

Toscano, Alberto. 2021. The Faust Variations. Historical Materialism, 29(1), pp. 162-173. ISSN 1465-4466 [Article]

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This essay explores Jameson’s reading of Goethe’s Faust II in Allegory and Ideology, putting it into dialogue with enquiries into Goethian allegory by other Marxist critics, namely Georg Lukács, Cesare Cases and Franco Fortini. Allegories of monetisation and dispossession in Faust II are explored, along with the limits of Lukács’s partial devaluation of the allegorical. The essay focuses in particular on how Jameson’s reading of Faust II can be interpreted as an allegory of theory itself, and in particular of the dialectic, thereby returning us to Lukács’s own parallel reading of Faust and Hegel’s Phenomenology, albeit in a different key.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1163/1569206X-12342006

Keywords:

allegory, Cesare Cases, dialectic, Franco Fortini, J.W. Goethe, Fredric Jameson, Georg Lukács

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Sociology

Dates:

DateEvent
21 December 2020Published Online
March 2021Published

Item ID:

30444

Date Deposited:

18 Aug 2021 13:21

Last Modified:

20 Aug 2021 08:22

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/30444

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