by Walter Benjamin · Verso · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781844675708
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«Aesthetics and Politics» is a collection of essays by Adorno, Benjamin, Bloch, Brecht and Lukács (Verso, paperback, 220 pages, in English).
The volume brings together the central texts of the Marxist debate on literature and art in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. It includes interventions on expressionism, realism and the political commitment of art, as well as letters and replies between Benjamin, Adorno, Bloch, Lukács and Brecht, with an epilogue by Fredric Jameson.
This 2007 edition is part of Verso's Radical Thinkers series. Texts translated from German; the translation was originally published in London in 1977. Includes bibliographical references and index.
For readers interested in critical theory, political philosophy and art history.
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Jewish mysticism, Western Marxism, and post-Kantianism, he made contributions to the philosophy of history, metaphysics, historical materialism, criticism, and aesthetics, and had an oblique but overwhelmingly influential impact on the resurrection of the Kabbalah by virtue of his life-long epistolary relationship with Gershom Scholem.
