Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution

(Book #5 in the Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism Series)

by Margaret Cohen

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520201507

ISBN13:9780520201507

Release Date:March 1995

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:271 Pages

Weight:1.06 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory Europe Germany History History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Movements & Periods Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences

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Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution

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