Markus Wessendorf
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5778958 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Markus Wessendorf |
| NOMBRES | Markus |
| APELLIDO | Wessendorf |
| FIRMA | WESSENDORF M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 2 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 2 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Brecht in Los Angeles—“in this mausoleum of easy going ”
In his book City of Quartz from 1990, the urban theorist Mike Davis criticized Bertolt Brecht for having failed to explore the “real-life Mahagonny” and “thriving local labor movement” of Los Angeles while he lived there from 1941 to 1947. For someone who considered himself a dialectical thinker, Brecht showed surprisingly little interest in the specific historical dialectic that had shaped Los Angeles. Shortly after moving there, he had already …
Brecht’s Materialist Ethics between Confucianism and Mohism
This essay examines how Brecht’s long-standing engagement with the philosophies of Confucius and Mo Zi helped to shape a materialist perspective that is far more complex than what is suggested by one of his most famous lines: “Food is the first thing. Morals follow on” ( The Threepenny Opera [1928]). The essay’s primary references are two texts by Brecht, which remained fragments and are not (yet) available in English translation: his notes for a…
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Brecht’s Materialist Ethics between Confucianism and Mohism
This essay examines how Brecht’s long-standing engagement with the philosophies of Confucius and Mo Zi helped to shape a materialist perspective that is far more complex than what is suggested by one of his most famous lines: “Food is the first thing. Morals follow on” ( The Threepenny Opera [1928]). The essay’s primary references are two texts by Brecht, which remained fragments and are not (yet) available in English translation: his notes for a…
Brecht in Los Angeles—“in this mausoleum of easy going ”
In his book City of Quartz from 1990, the urban theorist Mike Davis criticized Bertolt Brecht for having failed to explore the “real-life Mahagonny” and “thriving local labor movement” of Los Angeles while he lived there from 1941 to 1947. For someone who considered himself a dialectical thinker, Brecht showed surprisingly little interest in the specific historical dialectic that had shaped Los Angeles. Shortly after moving there, he had already …
Art (2 obras) · Epistemology (2 obras) · Philosophy (2 obras) · Aesthetics (1 obra) · Art history (1 obra) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 obra) · Capitalism (1 obra) · Chinese history and philosophy (1 obra) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 obra) · Classics (1 obra)