Marxist Modernism

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).

Editors' Introduction: Gillian Rose and the Difficulty of Critical Theory | Robert Lucas Scott and James Gordon Finlayson

Marxist Modernism | Gillian Rose
1. Introduction: Marxist Modernism
2. The Politics of Realism: Georg Lukács
3. The Greatness and Decline of Expressionism: Ernst Bloch
4. The Battle Over Walter Benjamin
5. The Dialectic of Enlightenment: Horkheimer and Adorno
6. Liquidating Aesthetics: Brecht
7. The Search for Style: Adorno; Kafka or Mann?

Afterword | Martin Jay
Index