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Marxist Modernism

Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory
By Gillian Rose
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Marxist Modernism presents for the first time Gillian Rose’s 1979 lectures on the Frankfurt School, art, and politics. Delivered soon after the publication of her now classic study of Adorno, The Melancholy Science, the lecture series expands upon this work to explore the lives and philosophies... Read More
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Lectures on art, Marxism, and critical theory by the legendary philosopher, collected for the first time

Lectures on art, Marxism, and critical theory by the legendary philosopher Gillian Rose

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Marxist Modernism presents for the first time Gillian Rose’s 1979 lectures on the Frankfurt School, art, and politics. Delivered soon after the publication of her now classic study of Adorno, The Melancholy Science, the lecture series expands upon this work to explore the lives and philosophies of a wider range of Frankfurt School members and affiliates: from Adorno, to Lukács, Brecht, Bloch, Benjamin, and Horkheimer.

In particular, Rose discusses their debates concerning various twentieth-century modernist art movements and outlines the ways in which each theorist developed Marx’s theory of commodity fetishism into a Marxist theory of culture.

Marxist Modernism serves as a comprehensive yet concise and conversational introduction to the Frankfurt School, but it also provides a new resource for one of the twentieth century’s most important philosophers: Gillian Rose. The volume offers an accessible encounter with Rose’s thought for those not yet acquainted with her formidable work, while provoking a renewed engagement with the Marxist basis of her oeuvre for those who are.

An Afterword by the renowned intellectual historian Martin Jay reviews the lectures and contextualises them within the wider reception of the Frankfurt School in the Anglophone world.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781804290118

Publisher: Verso Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 September 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Verso Books

Contributors:

  • Edited by James Gordon Finlayson
  • Afterword by Martin Jay
  • Edited by Robert Lucas Scott

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 11.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 169g

Pages: 176

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About the Author

Gillian Rose (1947-1995) was one of the twentieth century’s most important philosophers and social theorists. She was a lecturer in sociology at the University of Sussex, and then chair of Social and Political Thought at the University of Warwick. She is the author of works such as Hegel Contra Sociology (1981), The Broken Middle: Out of Our Ancient Society (1992), and her memoir Love’s Work: A Reckoning with Life (1995).

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