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. Here 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 thought. Frederic Jameson, author of The Political Unconsciousness and Marxism and Form, sums up the paradoxical lessons for art and criticism today in a thoughtful conclusion.
- ISBN10 0902308386
- ISBN13 9780902308381
- Publish Date 1 April 1988 (first published 1 February 1980)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 April 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Verso Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 232
- Language English