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Aesthetics and Politics
by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin
Sept. 28, 2017 - Sept. 29, 2017 (read/capitalism-etc/literary-criticism)

Brecht, B. et al (2007). Aesthetics and Politics. Verso.


Verso, 2007. 220 pages. Paperback. 9781844675708

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p.212
reifying »
make (something abstract) more concrete or real
p.210
Marxian »
pertaining to Karl Marx and ideas he explicitly e…
p.197
propitiousness »
(adjective) favorably disposed; benevolent / (adj…
p.194
malediction »
(noun) curse execration
p.189
fulminate »
(verb) to utter or send out with denunciation / (…
p.206
the practice of estrangement
[...] The practice of estrangement--staging pheno…
p.201
the practice of affixing instant class labels
[...] Nothing has, of course, more effectively di…
p.184
political reality is trivialized
[...] This is why the buffoonery of fascism, evok…
p.180
Sartre on committed art
[...] Committed art in the proper sense is not in…
p.175
desperately tugging at his chains
For all this, it is impossible to rid oneself of …

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Commitment

talks a lot about Sartre's essay What is Literature

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Commitment

talks a lot about Sartre's essay What is Literature

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