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.
| ISBN: | 9798888909072 |
| Publication date: | 17th November 2026 |
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| Publisher: | Haymarket Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 173 pages |
| Series: | Historical Materialism |
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Political ideologies and movements |
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.
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