Marxism and Modernism: An Historical Study of Lukacs, Brecht, Benjamin, and AdornoThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982. |
Contents
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Modernism in Comparative Perspective | 33 |
A Debate on Realism and Modernism | 75 |
Paths Toward a Marxist Aesthetics | 91 |
Stalinism Nazism and History | 128 |
AvantGarde and Culture Industry | 149 |
The Develop | 173 |
Marxism Much Revised | 215 |
Modernist Alternatives | 242 |
Conclusion | 281 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 289 |
Works Relating to Modernism in the Arts | 295 |
Secondary Works Relating to the Debates | 301 |
Works on Adorno Benjamin Brecht | 310 |
Works on German and European Social | 319 |
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