Aesthetics and politics
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Bibliographic Information
Aesthetics and politics
NLB, 1977
Available at 25 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- 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
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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. Here 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 thought. Frederic Jameson, author of The Political Unconsciousness and Marxism and Form, sums up the paradoxical lessons for art and criticism today in a thoughtful conclusion.
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