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Profane Illumination : Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520201507
ISBN-13
9780520201507
eBay Product ID (ePID)
317996
Product Key Features
Book Title
Profane Illumination : Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution
Number of Pages
284 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1995
Topic
Europe / France, History & Surveys / Modern, Political, Semiotics & Theory
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Philosophy, History
Book Series
Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
11.8 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
92-036861
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
""This challenging, often profound book investigates the 'visual rhetoric of understanding' manifest in surrealism's and Marxism's 'emancipatory vocabularies' and dream imagery. Drawing upon Walter Benjamin's and Andre Breton's theoretical, critical, and literary writings, Cohen posits a genre of 'Gothic Marxism, ' which owes much to Freud's psychoanalytic oeuvre. This genre links dialectical thinking, dreaming, and historical awakening with political, cultural, and artistic bricolage. . . . [In addition,] the book contains evocative illustrations."
Series Volume Number
5
Dewey Decimal
193
Table Of Content
Illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgments 1. Gothic Marxism 2. Benjamin's Marxisms 3. Qui suis-je? Nadja's Haunting Subject 4. The Ghosts of Paris 5. The Questions of Modern Materialism 6. The Rencontre Capitale 7. Benjamin Reading the Rencontre 8. Le Diable á Paris: Benjamin's Phantasmagoria Bibliography Index
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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