(P/B) AESTHETICS AND POLITICS

Παρουσίαση

An intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century philosophy and literature
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. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Presentation I
Ernst Bloch - Discussing expressionism
Georg Lukacs - Realism in the balance
Presentation II
Bertolt Brecht - Against Georg Lukacs
Walter Benjamin - Conversations with Brecht
Presentation III
Theodor Adorno - Letters to Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin - Reply
Presentation IV
Theodor Adorno - Reconciliation under duress
Theodor Adorno - Commitment
Fredric Jameson - Reflections in conclusion
Index