Marxism and Modernism: An Historical Study of Lukács, Brecht, Benjamin, and Adorno

"At a time when modernism and Marxism are both under attack as outmoded, Eugene Lunn's rich and detailed study of the years of their most creative interaction reminds us of the still potent energies unleashed by each. We could ask for no more reliable and judicious guide through the complicated debates generated by the struggle to define a viable Marxist aesthetics in the era of the avant—garde. Lukacs, Brecht, Benjamin and Adorno, four masters of the tradition of Marxist cultural theory an...