PROFANE ILLUMINATION by Margaret Cohen ( 9780520201507 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

PROFANE ILLUMINATION
WALTER BENJAMIN AND THE PARIS OF SURREALIST REVOLUTION

By:

Margaret Cohen

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Paperback

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0520201507

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9780520201507

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Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Pub. date:

6 March, 1995

Pages:

284

Description:

Analyzes the links between Breton's surrealist fusion of psychoanalysis and Marxism and Walter Benjamin's post-Enlightenment challenge to Marxist theory. This title argues that Breton's surrealist Marxism played a formative role in shaping postwar French intellectual life.

Synopsis:

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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