Brecht’s Materialist Ethics between Confucianism and Mohism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19157200 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Markus Wessendorf (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 122-145 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy East and West (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8221 • E-ISSN: 1529-1898 |
| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/pew.2016.0006 |
| OpenAlex | W2266582766 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
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 play on the Life of Confucius (1940–1941) and an extensive collection of shorter prose texts from the 1930s, first published posthumously in 1965 under the title Me-ti: Buch der Wendungen (Mo-zi: Book of turns)
Art · Epistemology · Literature · Materialism · Mohism · Perspective (graphical) · Chinese history and philosophy · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |