Aesthetics and Politics (Radical Thinkers)

Mostly letters and Essays from giants in the field of Aesthetics. Got this to compliment my University reading. Love this field of work & research, as it was totally new to me at the start of the year, now I'm hooked. Will be looking at others in this series.

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I've just started reading this book and I have to say it is a difficult read. Well worth reading though.

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An outstanding collection of dialogic essays gathered from the key years of Imperial crisis surrounding the rise of Fascism and leading up to WWII. The great figures collected here exchange disagreements vis-à-vis the status of modern aesthetics in the 20th century. We see here Lukacs' famous critique of the avant-garde movements in literature, which is then rebuked by mordantly brilliant works of criticism from Brecht and Adorno. This is an absolutely vital collection for anyone interested in the history of political aesthetics in the 20th century.

This was the last shuddering crisis in modern philosophy. Fascism was on the rise and those intellectuals who had so much hope in a revolution after the carnage World War I in Western Europe were faced with an aesthetic crisis. This collection of writings by Neo-Marxist cultural critics essentially foretells the insanity of the Holocaust through a careful analysis of bourgeois capital and its effects on society. This is not a light read, but will change your understanding of humanity.

Excellent read ..

Fruitfully contributes to discussion on the historical role of art and how art relates to the struggle for revolutionary socialism/communism. The kind of revolutionary communism that existed in China when Mao Tse-tung was the primary leader. That China (unlike today's China) was a true socialist society. Maoist China strove to eventually abolish all classes and eliminate all exploitation and oppression.