The reader's progress
remarks on Arnold Hauser's philosophy of art history
pp. 29-43
in: Kostas Gavroglu, John Stachel, Mark W. Wartofsky (eds), Science, mind and art, Berlin, Springer, 1995Abstract
In 1918, at the University of Budapest, two friends, Karl Mannheim and Arnold Hauser, defended and subsequently published their theses in Athenaeum, a Hungarian journal of philosophy.1 Although one discussed epistemology and the other aesthetics, their theoretical premises, modes of argumentation, and suggested solutions were so close that, had these papers been preserved anonymously, readers of a later generation would probably have attributed them to the same author.
