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The key text in the great controversies over literature and art between giants of 20th century philosophy, including Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht.
Synopsis
Features the text in the great controversies over literature and art between thinkers who have become giants of 20th-century philosophy.
Book Details
Publisher:
VERSO
Publication Date:
14-Dec-2006
ISBN:
9781844675708
Guardian review
The most remarkable aesthetic debates in European cultural history, with an afterword by 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.