Marksizm ve Modernizm

(...) Thus, the Second International Marxists failed to properly come to terms with the modernist tendencies developing in their own environment. A Marxist culture approaching modernist methods would only emerge in the 1920s. We investigated this conjuncture of political and cultural rebellion that started within the constructivist and surrealist movements. The important thing here was that modernists approached Marxism, not the other way around (we will also point out this in the examples of Brecht, Benjamin and Adorno). But various attempts to use modernist aesthetics for Marxist ends were short-lived: in Germany the Nazuers put an end to all cultural experimentation after 1933, a policy that was still in the Soviet orbit and constituted both the high and low point of so-called Marxist aesthetics. The Communist policy of socialist realism was being developed. (...) -From the Book, Page 107-



Number of Pages: 456

Year of Printing: 2011


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Footnote

Number of Pages: 456

First Publication Year: 2011

Language: Turkish