Brecht on Art and Politics Book

	General Introduction and Acknowledgements	1
Pt. 1	Early Writing and Polemics 1914-1928
1	Extracts from the 'Augsburg War Letters'	18
2	From the 1920 Notebooks	21
3	On Habitual Patriotism	22
4	On Expressionism and Dadaism	24
5	On German Literature	26
6	Mood and Opinion	28
7	Let's Get Back to Detective Novels!	30
8	On Being a Suitable Spectator	33
9	On Art and Socialism	34
10	Literary Judgements	40
11	An Argument with Thomas Mann	41
12	Challenging Bourgeois Culture	43
13	On Poetry	47
14	On Politics and Art	51
15	Republication Forbidden!	52
Pt. 2	Culture and Society 1927-1933
16	The Piscator Experiment	64
17	Primacy of the Apparatus	66
18	New Dramatic Writing	68
19	The Individual's Experience of the Apparatus in the Foreground	74
20	Conversation about Classics	76
21	Defence of the Lyric Poet Gottfried Benn	83
22	Suspicion of a New Tendency in Modern Philosophy	86
23	Theory of Pedagogies	88
24	On New Criticism	90
25	Ideas and Things	91
26	Who Needs a World-View?	95
27	On the Function of Thought	100
28	What is Progress?	102
29	Dialectics	103
30	On the Critique of Ideas	106
31	Theses on the Theory of Superstructure	107
32	Key Points in Korsch, pp. 37 and 54	109
33	Use of Truth	111
34	Einstein-Freud	112
Pt. 3	Nazism and Anti-Fascism 1933-1939
35	Extracts from 'Unpolitical Letters'	126
36	Fascist Slogans	130
37	On Restoring the Truth	133
38	In the Fight Against Injustice Even Weak Weapons Are of Use	140
39	Five Difficulties in Writing the Truth	141
40	A Necessary Observation on the Struggle Against Barbarism	157
41	On the Question of Whether Hitler Is Being Honest	163
42	From the English Letters	167
43	Speech at the Second International Writers' Congress for the Defence of Culture	169
44	Platform for Left-wing Intellectuals	172
45	Speech on the Power of Resistance of Reason	176
46	Speech on the Question Why Such Large Parts of the German People Support Hitler's Politics	179
47	On My Attitude to the Soviet Union	182
48	On the Moscow Trials	184
49	The Greatest of All Artists	189
50	Why are the Petty Bourgeoisie and Even the Proletariat Threatening to Turn to Fascism?	191
51	On the Theatricality of Fascism	193
52	The Last Word	202
Pt. 4	Realism and Formalism 1938-1940
53	The Expressionism Debate	213
54	Breadth and Variety of the Realist Mode of Writing	220
55	Socialist Realism	228
56	The Struggle Against Formalism	233
57	On Non-representational Painting	239
58	Notes on the Realist Mode of Writing	242
59	The Crime Novel	263
Pt. 5	Brecht and German Socialism 1942-1956
60	On the Declaration of the 26 United Nations	282
61	The Other Germany: 1943	284
62	Report on the Situation of Germans in Exile	292
63	Where I Live	294
64	Statement to the House Committee on Un-American Activities in Washington, 1947	298
65	Conversations with Young Intellectuals	301
66	Bringing the World Peace at Last	307
67	The Emblem of the Berliner Ensemble	307
68	The Arts in Upheaval	308
69	Concerning the Accusation of Formalism	309
70	Notes on the Discussion about Formalism	311
71	What is Formalism?	313
72	The Discussion about The Condemnation of Lucullus	316
73	Open Letter to German Artists and Writers	317
74	Notes on the Barlach Exhibition	319
75	On the Death of Stalin	324
76	Erwin Strittmatter's Katzgraben	324
77	'Theses on the Faustus Discussion	327
78	Concerning 17 June 1953	331
79	The Urgent Need for a Major Discussion	332
80	Declaration by the German Academy of Arts	333
81	Preface to Turandot	335
82	The Volkskammer	337
83	Peace is the Be-all and End-all	338
84	On the Criticism of Stalin	341
	Select Bibliography	343
	Index of Names and Key Terms	345