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Title Aesthetics and politics / Ernst Bloch ... [and others] ; afterword by Fredric Jameson ; translation editor Ronald Taylor
Edition First Verso edition
Published London ; New York : Verso, 1980
London : Verso, 1980

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 MELB  111.85 Blo/Aap 1980  AVAILABLE
Description 220 pages ; 21 cm
Contents Discussing expressionism / Ernst Bloch -- Realism in the balance / Georg Lukács -- Against Georg Lukács / 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
Summary 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
Notes First published: London : NLB, 1977
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Aesthetics.
Dialectical materialism.
Author Bloch, Ernst, 1885-1977.
ISBN 0860917223 (paperback)