Marxism and Modernism : An Historical Study of Lukacs, Brecht, Benjamin, and Adorno / Eugene Lunn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lunn, Eugene, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dialectical materialism--History.

Dialectical materialism.

Modernism (Aesthetics)--History.

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 1984.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This 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:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE. Art and Society in the Thought of Karl Marx

CHAPTER TWO. Modernism in Comparative Perspective

CHAPTER THREE. A Debate on Realism and Modernism

CHAPTER FOUR. Paths Toward a Marxist Aesthetics

CHAPTER FIVE. Stalinism, Nazism, and History

CHAPTER SIX. Avant-Garde and Culture Industry

CHAPTER SEVEN. Benjamin and Adorno: The Development of Their Thought

CHAPTER EIGHT. Marxism Much Revised

CHAPTER NINE. Modernist Alternatives

Conclusion

I. Works Relating to Marx, Marxism, or Marxist Aesthetics

II. Works Relating to Modernism in the Arts

III. Secondary Works Related to the Debates

IV. Works by Adorno, Benjamin, Brecht, and Lukάcs

V. Works on Adorno, Benjamin, Brecht, and Lukάcs

VI. Works on German and European Social, Political, and Cultural History, and Miscellaneous

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520315204

0520315200

OCLC:

1149443373