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Brecht Collected Plays: Five (Life of Galileo / Mother Courage and Her Children)

Bertolt Brecht

A collected volume containing two of Brecht's major plays: Life of Galileo, examining free inquiry versus state ideology, and Mother Courage and Her Children, a chronicle of the Thirty Years War following a woman who loses her children to war but clings to her livelihood. Edited by John Willett and Ralph Manheim with extensive notes and commentary by Brecht.

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God & Work

What this book knows

Intellectual courage and moral cowardice are the same struggle: science, war, and survival demand we choose between truth and complicity.

Sex: Absent
Work: Present
Learning: Present
Religion: Primary

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faith-and-doubt

For two thousand years people believed the sun and stars rotate around mankind. But now we are breaking out.
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I won't be a nobody on an inconsequential star briefly twirling hither and thither. I tread the earth, and the earth is firm beneath my feet.
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Unhappy the land that has no heroes! Galileo has entered, so completely changed by his trial as to be almost unrecognisable.
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Even a wool merchant has not only to buy cheap and sell dear but also to ensure that the wool trade continues unimpeded. The pursuit of science likewise.
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I ain't helping Catholics. Stick your pike in his ribs.
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Hope I can pull cart all right. She harnessed herself to the cart, alone, after covering her dead daughter.
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