The philosophy of art of Karl Marx

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Lifshits

Pluto Press

1973

118 páginas

3h 56m

ISBN-10: 0902818341

The Philosophy of Art of Karl Marx is notable for its originality of method in proaching the subject of Marx's aesthetics. Far from being a mere compendium of Marx's comments on art and literature, it treats his writing in this field as an integral part of the totality of his thought. In his complex but lucid argument, Lifshitz demonstrates the relations between Marx's changing views of art and the development of his revolutionary theory, ranging from Marx's own early Romantic poetry to 'Capital'. In the process, the book discusses some of Marx's comments on art, in notebooks and articles, which are still little known.