**An intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century philosophy and literature.** **With an afterword by Fredric Jameson** No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In *Aesthetics and Politics* the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a continuous, interlinked debate between thinkers who have become giants of twentieth-century intellectual history.