Soul and Form

E408335

book essay collection

Soul and Form is a collection of early philosophical and literary essays by György Lukács that explores the nature of form, subjectivity, and the meaning of life in modern culture.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Soul and Form canonical	2
Die Seele und die Formen	1
Soul and Form (English edition)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4054061 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Soul and Form
Context triple: [György Lukács, notableWork, Soul and Form]

A. Souls on Fire
Souls on Fire is a collection of spiritual and biographical tales in which Elie Wiesel portrays the lives, teachings, and inner struggles of Hasidic masters.
B. Spirit in the World
"Spirit in the World" is a major philosophical-theological work by Karl Rahner that reinterprets Thomas Aquinas’s thought through a transcendental, existential lens to explore human knowledge of God and reality.
C. Soul Dressing
Soul Dressing is a 1965 instrumental soul album by Booker T. & the M.G.'s that showcases the band's tight grooves and influential Memphis sound.
D. Soul to Soul
"Soul to Soul" is a 1985 blues-rock studio album by guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan and his band Double Trouble, known for its gritty sound and expanded instrumentation.
E. The Divine Milieu
The Divine Milieu is a seminal spiritual and philosophical work by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin that explores the presence of God in the evolving cosmos and everyday human experience.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

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Target entity: Soul and Form
Target entity description: Soul and Form is a collection of early philosophical and literary essays by György Lukács that explores the nature of form, subjectivity, and the meaning of life in modern culture.

A. Souls on Fire
Souls on Fire is a collection of spiritual and biographical tales in which Elie Wiesel portrays the lives, teachings, and inner struggles of Hasidic masters.
B. Spirit in the World
"Spirit in the World" is a major philosophical-theological work by Karl Rahner that reinterprets Thomas Aquinas’s thought through a transcendental, existential lens to explore human knowledge of God and reality.
C. Soul Dressing
Soul Dressing is a 1965 instrumental soul album by Booker T. & the M.G.'s that showcases the band's tight grooves and influential Memphis sound.
D. Soul to Soul
"Soul to Soul" is a 1985 blues-rock studio album by guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan and his band Double Trouble, known for its gritty sound and expanded instrumentation.
E. The Divine Milieu
The Divine Milieu is a seminal spiritual and philosophical work by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin that explores the presence of God in the evolving cosmos and everyday human experience.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book ⓘ essay collection ⓘ
author	György Lukács ⓘ
concerns	relationship between biography and work of art ⓘ tension between life and form in literature ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Hungary ⓘ
criticalReception	considered a classic of early 20th-century aesthetics ⓘ
editorOfEnglishEdition	John T. Sanders ⓘ Katie Terezakis ⓘ
focusesOn	limits of artistic form ⓘ relationship between life and form ⓘ tragedy of modern individuality ⓘ
genre	literary criticism ⓘ philosophical essays ⓘ
hasEnglishTranslation	Soul and Form (English edition) ⓘ linked to: Soul and Form
hasEssayOn	Charles-Louis Philippe ⓘ Laurence Sterne ⓘ Novalis ⓘ Plato ⓘ Richard Beer-Hofmann ⓘ Stefan George ⓘ Søren Kierkegaard ⓘ Theodor Däubler ⓘ Theodor Storm ⓘ
hasForm	collection of essays ⓘ
influenced	Marxist aesthetics ⓘ critical theory ⓘ literary theory ⓘ
literaryApproach	essayistic ⓘ phenomenological description ⓘ
mainTheme	form ⓘ meaning of life ⓘ modern culture ⓘ subjectivity ⓘ
movement	early Lukácsian aesthetics ⓘ
originalLanguage	German ⓘ
periodOfAuthor	early work of György Lukács ⓘ
philosophicalConcern	authenticity in modern life ⓘ ethics of literary form ⓘ finitude and transcendence ⓘ
philosophicalTradition	Continental philosophy ⓘ
publicationCentury	20th century ⓘ
publisherOfEnglishEdition	Columbia University Press ⓘ
relatedWorkByAuthor	History and Class Consciousness ⓘ The Theory of the Novel ⓘ
titleInOriginalLanguage	Die Seele und die Formen ⓘ linked to: Soul and Form
translatorIntoEnglish	Anna Bostock ⓘ

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

György Lukács → notableWork → Soul and Form ⓘ

György Bernát Löwinger → notableWork → Soul and Form ⓘ

Soul and Form → titleInOriginalLanguage → Die Seele und die Formen ⓘ

linked to: Soul and Form

Soul and Form → hasEnglishTranslation → Soul and Form (English edition) ⓘ