Rationality and the Poet

Fritz Sternberg was a major German author on political economy, author of the classic Imperialism (1929) and Brecht’s “first teacher” in Marxism.Helga Grebing (1930–2017) was a historian and political scientist.Joel Rasbash has translated a number of German works for the Historical Materialism Book Series, most recently Alex Demirovic’s The Nonconformist Intellectual: From Critical theory to the Frankfurt School

• Translator’s Preface Introduction Helga GrebingPart 1: Rationality and the PoetRecollections of Bertolt Brecht Appendix 1: The Decline of Drama: Letters to a Dramatist by Mr. X Appendix 2: Extract from Der Imperialismus Appendix 3: Dialogue – Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Sternberg and Erwin Piscator Appendix 4: Sternberg on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar Appendix 5: Note on Ruth Berlau Appendix 6: Letter to Heinz Paechter 15 July 1963 Appendix 7: Entry in Brecht’s Work Journal Appendix 8: Letter from Lucinde Worringer 18 August 1956Part 2: Selected WritingsThe Social Lessons of the German Revolution for the Reconstruction of Palestine (1918) Der Imperialismus and the Critics (1929) Fascism and the Middle Classes (1932) Draft of an Economic Programme of the Fourth International (1933) The Sociology of Repression: Karl Marx and the Centenary of Freud (1961) Chronology of Rationality and the Poet Biographical Information References Index

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