Writings of the Young Andor Sas

The study presents and analyses the works of Andor Sas written in his youth. It categorizes his articles and reviews written before 1918 into five themes: 1. Hegel’s philosophy and its Hungarian implications (e.g. its influence on Imre Madách’s Tragedy of Man); 2. parts of Hungarian philosophy concerning conventional wisdom and the impact of Schelling; 3. German Romanticism; 4. Goethe’s spirituality, his works and the theme of Faust; 5. the cultural struggles of the First World War and the problem of so-called cultural pessimism.