Brecht B. Brecht on Art and Politics

New York: Bloomsbury, Methuen Drama, 2005 — 366 p. — ISBN10: 0413773531; ISBN13: 978-0413773531. Edited by Tom Kuhn and Steve Giles. Part Five (Brecht and German Socialism 1942-1956) edited by Stephen Parker, Matthew Philpotts and Peter Davies. Translations by Laura Bradley, Steve Giles and Tom Kuhn.This volume contains new translations to extend our image of one of the twentieth century's most entertaining and thought provoking writers on culture, aesthetics and politics. Here are a cross-section of Brecht's wide-ranging thoughts which offer us an extraordinary window onto the concerns of a modern world in four decades of economic and political disorder. The book is designed to give wider access to the experience of a dynamic intellect, radically engaged with social, political and cultural processes. Each section begins with a short essay by the editors introducing and summarising Brecht's thought in the relevant year.General Introduction and Acknowledgements
Early Writings and Polemics 1914-1928
Culture and Society 1927-1933
Nazism and Anti-Fascism 1933-1939
Realism and Formalism 1938-1940