Aesthetics and Politics
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.
Hardback, 220 pages
ISBN: 9781844676644
November 2010
$24.95 / £14.99
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Part of the Radical Thinkers Classic Editions series
Reviews
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This is vital reading for anyone concerned with the relationship between art and socialism.
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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.
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