This book is a part of the Radical Thinkers Ser. and features essays on aesthetics and politics by notable authors such as Bertolt Brecht, Theodor Adorno, Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, and Georg Lukacs. New condition. Fast shipping.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherVerso Books
ISBN-10184467570X
ISBN-139781844675708
eBay Product ID (ePID)16038671519
Product Key Features
Book TitleAesthetics and Politics
Number of Pages220 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistory & Theory, Aesthetics, History & Surveys / Modern, Political
Publication Year2007
GenrePhilosophy, Political Science
AuthorBertolt Brecht, Theodor Adorno, Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Georg Lukacs
Book SeriesRadical Thinkers Ser.
FormatPerfect
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight7.2 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"This is vital reading for anyone concerned with the relationship between art and socialism."-John Fowles "They are key texts in the study of modernism, of expressionist drama and of realism, and of many closely related general questions ... It is genuinely an indispensable volume."-Raymond Williams
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal111.85
SynopsisAn 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., The key text in the great controversies over literature and art between thinkers who have become giants of 20th-century philosophy.