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Book SynopsisBertolt Brecht's
Me-ti, which remained unpublished in his own lifetime, now appears for the first time in English. Me-ti counselled against constructing too complete images of the world'. For this work of fragments and episodes, Brecht accumulated anecdotes, poems, personal stories and assessments of contemporary politics. Given its controversial nature, he sought a disguise, using the name of a Chinese contemporary of Socrates, known today as Mozi. Stimulated by his humorous aphoristic style and social focus, as well as an engrained Chinese awareness of the flow of things, Brecht developed a practical, philosophical, anti-systematic ethics, discussing Marxist dialectics, Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, the Moscow trials, and the theories behind current events, while warning how ideology makes people the servants of priests'.
Me-ti is central to an understanding of Brecht''s critical reflections on Marxist dialectics and his commitment to change and the non-eternal, the philosophy
Trade ReviewThere is much here to learn and enjoy both for English speakers new to Brecht's philosophical prose and for those familiar with the earlier German editions. * The Brecht Yearbook *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Me-ti: Book of Interventions in the Flow of Things Appendix Index
