Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution

ISBN-13: 9780520201507 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 271 str.

Margaret Cohen

Opis

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.