Rationality and the Poet

Recollections of Bertolt Brecht and Selected Writings

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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A lively account of discussions between the young Bertolt Brecht and the Marxian Political Economist Fritz Sternberg, published in English here 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. 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. This volume presents a selection of his writings from the period of his most intensive friendship with Brecht, highlighting the versatile and independent socialist cast of Sternberg’s mind.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-11-13
Mått:152 x 228 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:173
Förlag:Haymarket Books
ISBN:9798888909072
Översättare:Rasbash, Joel

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Politiska ideologier och rörelser inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Fritz Sternberg was a major German author on political economy, author of the classic Imperialism (1929) and Brecht’s “first teacher” in Marxism.Helga Grebing (1930–2017) was a historian and political scientist.Joel Rasbash has translated a number of German works for the Historical Materialism Book Series, most recently Alex Demirovic’s The Nonconformist Intellectual: From Critical theory to the Frankfurt School

Innehållsförteckning

Translator’s Preface Introduction Helga GrebingPart 1: Rationality and the PoetRecollections 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 1956Part 2: Selected WritingsThe 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