| Edition |
1st Princeton pbk. ed. |
| Description |
xix, 432 pages ; 22 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Princeton paperbacks
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-424) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- T.W. Adorno; or, historical tropes -- Versions of a Marxist hermeneutic : I. Walter Benjamin; or, nostalgia -- II. [Herbert] Marcuse and [Friedrich] Schiller -- III. Ernst Bloch and the future -- The case for Georg Lukács -- [John Paul] Sartre and history -- Towards dialectical criticism. |
| Summary |
Providing an account of the work of the European Marxist theorists, this book presents a framework for analyzing the connection between art and the historical circumstances of its making - in particular, how cultural artifacts distort, repress, or transform their circumstances through the abstractions of aesthetic form. |
| Subject |
Marxist criticism.
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Dialectical materialism.
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Communism in literature.
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Communism in literature. (OCoLC)fst00870546
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Dialectical materialism. (OCoLC)fst00892465
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Marxist criticism. (OCoLC)fst01010966
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| ISBN |
069101311X (pbk.) |
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9780691013114 (pbk.) |
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0691062048 (hbk.) |
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9780691062044 (hbk.) |
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