No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to
compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics
and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during
these years are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a
continuous interlinked debate between thinkers who have become giants of twentieth-century
intellectual history.
