Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Understanding Brecht
Walter Benjamin
€ 19.13
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Understanding Brecht
Paperback. .
The relationship between philosopher-critic Walter Benjamin and playwright-poet Bertolt Brecht was both a lasting friendship and a powerful intellectual partnership. Having met in the late 1920s in Germany, Benjamin and Brecht both independently minded Marxists with a deep understanding of and passionate commitment to the emancipatory potential of cultural practices continued to discuss, argue and correspond on topics as varied as Fascism and the work of Franz Kafka. Faced by the onset of the 'midnight of the century', with the Nazi subversion of the Weimar Republic in Germany and the Stalinist degeneration of the revolution in Russia, both men, in ... Read more
The relationship between philosopher-critic Walter Benjamin and playwright-poet Bertolt Brecht was both a lasting friendship and a powerful intellectual partnership. Having met in the late 1920s in Germany, Benjamin and Brecht both independently minded Marxists with a deep understanding of and passionate commitment to the emancipatory potential of cultural practices continued to discuss, argue and correspond on topics as varied as Fascism and the work of Franz Kafka. Faced by the onset of the 'midnight of the century', with the Nazi subversion of the Weimar Republic in Germany and the Stalinist degeneration of the revolution in Russia, both men, in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781859844182
SKU
V9781859844182
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama.
Reviews for Understanding Brecht
A small bomb of ideas and vital argument.
Guardian
He does not abolish the distance between us and Leskov, or Brecht, or Kafka; he brings it to life.
Times Higher Education Supplement
If the killing of Lorca was Fascism's first crime against literature, Benjamin's death was undoubtedly the second.
The Listener
Reading Walter Benjamin's ... Read more
Guardian
He does not abolish the distance between us and Leskov, or Brecht, or Kafka; he brings it to life.
Times Higher Education Supplement
If the killing of Lorca was Fascism's first crime against literature, Benjamin's death was undoubtedly the second.
The Listener
Reading Walter Benjamin's ... Read more