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No othercountry and no other period has produced a tradition of major aestheticdebate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key textsof the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during theseyears are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparatecollection but a continuous, interlinked debate between thinkers whohave become giants of twentieth-century intellectual history.