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

Author:   Helga Grebing ,  Joel Rasbash ,  Fritz Sternberg
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   359
ISBN:  

9789004738430


Pages:   186
Publication Date:   04 November 2025
Format:   Hardback
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Rationality and the Poet: Recollections of Bertolt Brecht and Selected Writings


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Rationality and the Poet is a lively account of the discussions between the young Bertolt Brecht and the Marxian Political Economist Fritz Sternberg. 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. In this volume a number of his writings have been selected from the period of his most intensive friendship with Brecht to highlight the versatile and independent socialist cast of Sternberg’s mind. Here published in English 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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Author:   Helga Grebing ,  Joel Rasbash ,  Fritz Sternberg
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   359
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004738430


ISBN 10:   9004738436
Pages:   186
Publication Date:   04 November 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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Language:   German

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Fritz Sternberg was a major German author on political economy, author of the classic Imperialism (1929) and Brecht’s ‘first teacher’ in Marxism. Helga Grebing (1930–2017) was a historian and political scientist. Joel Rasbash has translated a number of German works for the Historical Materialism Book Series, most recently Alex Demirovic’s The Nonconformist Intellectual: From Critical theory to the Frankfurt School.

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