Rationality and the Poet : Recollections of Bertolt Brecht and Selected Writings /
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 initi...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2026.
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Historical Materialism Book Series ;
359.
Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
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Call Number: N5305
- 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.