Aesthetics and Politics

Aesthetics and Politics
Authors
Adorno, Theodor & Benjamin, Walter & Bloch, Ernst & Brecht, Bertolt & Lukács, Georg
Publisher
Verso
Tags
philosophy , politics , art
Date
1977-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.36 MB
Lang
en
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No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a continuous, interlinked debate between thinkers who have become giants of twentieth-century intellectual history.

Discussing expressionism / Ernst Bloch

Realism in the balance / Georg Lukacs

Against Georg Luckacs / Bertolt Brecht

Conversations with Brecht / Walter Benjamin

Letters to Walter Benjamin / Theodor Adorno

Reply / Walter Benjamin

Reconciliation under duress ; Commitment / Theodor Adorno

Reflections in conclusion / Fredric Jameson