Markus Wessendorf
Biographic Data
| ID | 5778958 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Markus Wessendorf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Markus |
| FAMILY NAME | Wessendorf |
| SIGNATURE | WESSENDORF M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 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 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 work) · Capitalism (1 work) · Chinese history and philosophy (1 work) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 work) · Classics (1 work)