Volume Overview

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.

Contents and Purpose

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.

Intended Audience

The book is designed to give wider access to the experience of a dynamic intellect, radically engaged with social, political, and cultural processes.

Structure

Each section begins with a short essay by the editors introducing and summarising Brecht's thought in the relevant year.