MARX & ENGELS ON LITERATURE & ART a selection of writings

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MARX & ENGELS
O N LITERATURE & ART
a selection of writings
edited by Lee Baxandall & Stefan Morawski
introduction by Stefan Morawski
Telos Press, St. Louis/Milwaukee
The editors wish to acknowledge a generous grant from the
Louis M. Rabinowitz Foundation which helped make this
volume possible. An earlier version of the introductory essay
appeared in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
Translations, Introduction and selections copyright © 1973
by Lee Baxandall and Stefan Morawski. All rights reserved.
This book is a publication of Telos Press, St. Louis, Missouri.
ISBN: 0-914386-02-6 (paper edition)
0-914386-01-8 (hard cover edition)
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 73-93501
Manufactured in the United States of America.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editors' Preface 1
Introduction 3
Origins and Traits of the Aesthetic Sensibility 49
Capitalist Alienation and the Warping of Aesthetic Values 57
Communism and the Advent of Artistic Disalienation 67
Class Values in Literature 75
The Class Reception of Artistic Values 95
The Problem of Realism 103
’Tendency'Literature 117
The Expression and Endurance of
Fundamental Human Values 129
Form and Style 137
Supplement 145
Bibliography 155
Name Index 173

MARX & ENGELS
O N LITERATURE & ART