‘Faust und die Dialektik: Studien zu Goethes Dichtung’ by Thomas Metscher reviewed by Vesa Oittinen (opens in new tab)

German literature scholar and philosopher Thomas Metscher is not well-known in the Anglophone world, although he could be regarded the German equivalent to such a figure as Frederic Jameson. Both are contemporaneous, both have written extensively on literature, culture and philosophy, and both are Marxists. But while Jameson’s ‘Cultural Marxism’ has always remained somewhat diffuse, Metscher’s position has been much more strict: his views are close to Marxism-Leninism, in the sense that he ac...