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Brecht On Art And Politics

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Brecht On Art And Politics
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Bertolt Brecht
SeriesDiaries, Letters and Essays
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:320
Category/GenreThe arts - general issues
Literary essays
Philosophy - aesthetics
Social and political philosophy
ISBN/Barcode 9780413773531
ClassificationsDewey:700.103
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publication Date 15 March 2005
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists of the 20th century whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and writing have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera and, while exiled from Germany and living in the USA, such masterpieces as The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.