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The stentorian voice of manly conviction which Lukács employs to assert in good Hegelian fashion the primacy of the substantial universal over the specious

points in its negativity to despair, to an uncontrollable Weltschmerz and to love

their transition to objectivity remains contemplative and fails to become praxis

Lukács contents himself with Schopenhauer's aperçu that

the demand for pragmatic fidelity to life can only refer to a writer's basic experience of reality and the membra disjecta of the subject-matter from which he fashions his work