| Description |
220 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
Radical thinkers ; 13 |
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Radical thinkers ; 13.
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| Note |
This translation originally published: London: NLB, 1977. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Discussing expressionism / Ernst Bloch -- Realism in the balance / Georg Lukacs -- Against Georg Lukacs / 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. |
| Language |
Text in English, translated from the German. |
| Summary |
In 'Aesthetics and Politics' the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art 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. |
| Subject |
Aesthetics.
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Communism and philosophy -- Germany.
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Dialectical materialism
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Aesthetics, Modern.
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| Added Author |
Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.
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Bloch, Ernst, 1885-1977.
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| ISBN |
184467570X (pbk.) |
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9781844675708 (pbk.) |
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