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Aesthetics and politics / Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Georg Lukács ; with an afterword by Fredric Jameson.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Radical thinkersPublication details: London : Verso, 2020.Description: 246 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781788738583
  • 9781788735292
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Contents:
Discussing expressionism / Ernst Bloch -- Realism in the balance / Georg Lukács -- Against Georg Lukács / Bertolt Brecht -- Conversations with Brecht / Walter Benjamin -- Letters to Walter Benjamin / Theodor Adorno -- Reply / Walter Benjamin -- Reconciliation under duress / Theodor Adorno -- Commitment / Theodor Adorno -- Reflections in conclusion / Fredric Jameson
Summary: 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.

Includes bibliographical notes and index.

Discussing expressionism / Ernst Bloch -- Realism in the balance / Georg Lukács -- Against Georg Lukács / Bertolt Brecht -- Conversations with Brecht / Walter Benjamin -- Letters to Walter Benjamin / Theodor Adorno -- Reply / Walter Benjamin -- Reconciliation under duress / Theodor Adorno -- Commitment / Theodor Adorno -- Reflections in conclusion / Fredric Jameson

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.

Translated from the German.