Rationality and the Poet : Recollections of Bertolt Brecht and Selected Writings / Fritz Sternberg ; edited by Helga Grebing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sternberg, Fritz, author.

Contributor:

Grebing, Helga, editor.

Series:

Historical Materialism Book Series ; 359.

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Historical Materialism Book Series ; 359

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--History.

Art.

Literature and Cultural Studies.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Recollections of Bertolt Brecht and Selected Writings

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rationality and the Poet is a lively account of the discussions between the young Bertolt Brecht and the Marxian Political Economist Fritz Sternberg. Set in the late Weimer Republic, these reminiscences chart the rise and fall of the friendship between the poet and the theoretician, from their initial encounters and Brecht’s induction into Marxist political economy to their increasing tensions over the Soviet Union. Sternberg charted an independent position between the Second and Third Internationals and remains a largely undiscovered theorist of the period spanning the end of the First World War to the Cold War. In this volume a number of his writings have been selected from the period of his most intensive friendship with Brecht to highlight the versatile and independent socialist cast of Sternberg’s mind. Here published in English for the first time, Rationality and the Poet casts a new light on the development of Brecht’s politics and the relationship between society and drama that informed his art.

Contents:

Translator’s Preface

Introduction

Helga Grebing

Part 1: Rationality and the Poet

Recollections of Bertolt Brecht

Appendix 1: The Decline of Drama: Letters to a Dramatist by Mr. X

Appendix 2: Extract from Der Imperialismus

Appendix 3: Dialogue – Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Sternberg and Erwin Piscator

Appendix 4: Sternberg on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

Appendix 5: Note on Ruth Berlau

Appendix 6: Letter to Heinz Paechter 15 July 1963

Appendix 7: Entry in Brecht’s Work Journal

Appendix 8: Letter from Lucinde Worringer 18 August 1956

Part 2: Selected Writings

The Social Lessons of the German Revolution for the Reconstruction of Palestine (1918)

Der Imperialismus and the Critics (1929)

Fascism and the Middle Classes (1932)

Draft of an Economic Programme of the Fourth International (1933)

The Sociology of Repression: Karl Marx and the Centenary of Freud (1961)

Chronology of Rationality and the Poet

Biographical Information

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Sternberg, Fritz Rationality and the Poet

ISBN:

9789004744295

OCLC:

1547910838

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004744295 DOI