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Author Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956

Title Brecht on art and politics / Bertolt Brecht ; edited by Thomas Kuhn and Steve Giles ; part 5 edited by Stephen Parker, Matthew Philpotts and Peter Davies ; translations by Laura Bradley, Steve Giles and Tom Kuhn
Published London : Methuen, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (354 pages)
Series Brecht's plays, poetry, ad prose
Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. Works. English. 1983.
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; General Introduction and Acknowledgements; Part One: Early Writings and Polemics 1914-1928; Introduction; 1 Extracts from the 'Augsburg War Letters'; 2 From the 1920 Notebooks; 3 On Habitual Patriotism; 4 On Expressionism and Dadaism; 5 On German Literature; 6 Mood and Opinion; 7 Let's Get Back to Detective Novels!; 8 On Being a Suitable Spectator; 9 On Art and Socialism; 10 Literary Judgements; 11 An Argument with Thomas Mann; 12 Challenging Bourgeois Culture; 13 On Poetry; 14 On Politics and Art; 15 Republication Forbidden!
Part Two: Culture and Society 1927-1933Introduction; 16 The Piscator Experiment; 17 Primacy of the Apparatus; 18 New Dramatic Writing; 19 The Individual's Experience of the Apparatus in the Foreground; 20 Conversation about Classics; 21 Defence of the Lyric Poet Gottfried Benn; 22 Suspicion of a New Tendency in Modern Philosophy; 23 Theory of Pedagogies; 24 On New Criticism; 25 Ideas and Things; 26 Who Needs a World-View?; 27 On the Function of Thought; 28 What is Progress?; 29 Dialectics; 30 On the Critique of Ideas; 31 Theses on the Theory of Superstructure
32 Key Points in Korsch, pp. 37 and 5433 Use of Truth; 34 Einstein-Freud; Part Three: Nazism and Anti-Fascism 1933-1939; Introduction; 35 Extracts from 'Unpolitical Letters'; 36 Fascist Slogans; 37 On Restoring the Truth; 38 In the Fight Against Injustice Even Weak Weapons Are of Use; 39 Five Difficulties in Writing the Truth; 40 A Necessary Observation on the Struggle Against Barbarism; 41 On the Question of Whether Hitler Is Being Honest; 42 From the English Letters; 43 Speech at the Second International Writers' Congress for the Defence of Culture; 44 Platform for Left-wing Intellectuals
45 Speech on the Power of Resistance of Reason46 Speech on the Question Why Such Large Parts of the German People Support Hitler's Politics; 47 On My Attitude to the Soviet Union; 48 On the Moscow Trials; 49 The Greatest of All Artists; 50 Why are the Petty Bourgeoisie and Even the Proletariat Threatening to Turn to Fascism?; 51 On the Theatricality of Fascism; 52 The Last Word; Part Four: Realism and Formalism 1938-1940; Introduction; 53 The Expressionism Debate; 54 Breadth and Variety of the Realist Mode of Writing; 55 Socialist Realism; 56 The Struggle Against Formalism
57 On Non-representational Painting58 Notes on the Realist Mode of Writing; 59 The Crime Novel; Part Five: Brecht and German Socialism 1942-1956; Introduction; 60 On the Declaration of the 26 United Nations; 61 The Other Germany: 1943; 62 Report on the Situation of Germans in Exile; 63 Where I Live; 64 Statement to the House Committee on Un-American Activities in Washington, 1947; 65 Conversations with Young Intellectuals; 66 Bringing the World Peace at Last; 67 The Emblem of the Berliner Ensemble; 68 The Arts in Upheaval; 69 Concerning the Accusation of Formalism
Summary This volume contains new translations to extend our image of one of the twentieth century's most entertaining and thought provoking writers on culture, aesthetics and politics. Here are a cross-section of Brecht's wide-ranging thoughts which offer us an extraordinary window onto the concerns of a modern world in four decades of economic and political disorder. The book is designed to give wider access to the experience of a dynamic intellect, radically engaged with social, political and cultural processes. Each section begins with a short essay by the editors introducing and summarising Brecht's thought in the relevant year
Notes Translated from the German
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-344) and index
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Subject Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 -- Aesthetics
Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 fast
Subject Theatre studies.
DRAMA -- Continental European.
Aesthetics
Political and social views
Art and Design.
Form Electronic book
Author Kuhn, Tom.
Giles, Steve.
Bradley, Laura J. R.
ISBN 9781474243339
1474243339
9781474243346
1474243347
9781474243353
1474243355
Other Titles Brecht on art & politics