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Rationality and the Poet: Recollections of Bertolt Brecht and Selected Writings

Rationality and the Poet: Recollections of Bertolt Brecht and Selected Writings

Sternberg, Fritz
Grebing, Helga
Rasbash, Joel

Paperback

Series: Historical Materialism

General Political ScienceSocial Movements

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 17, 2026

ISBN13: 9798888909072
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: Nov 17 2026
Pages: 173
Language: English

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.

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