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Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution

By Margaret Cohen

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1995
ISBN
0520201507, 9780520201507
LCC
B3209.B58C64 1993
Google Books ID
qBsJIn6tSoEC
Open Library ID
OL7710108M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10124156 bytes)
Series
Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism 5
Pages
284\284
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Margaret Cohen's encounter with Walter Benjamin, one of the twentieth century's most influential cultural and literary critics, has produced a radically new reading of surrealist thought and practice. Cohen analyzes the links between Breton's surrealist fusion of psychoanalysis and Marxism and Benjamin's post-Enlightenment challenge to Marxist theory. She argues that Breton's surrealist Marxism played a formative role in shaping postwar French intellectual life and is of continued relevance to the contemporary intellectual scene.

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