Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution: 5 (Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism) - Hardcover

Cohen, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520080238 ISBN 13: 9780520080232

Verlag: University of California Press, 1993

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Book by Cohen Margaret

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"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. . . . The book contains evocative illustrations."--S. Golub, "Choice

Reseña del editor:

Margaret Cohen's encounter with Walter Benjamin, one of the 20th century's most influential cultural and literary critics, has produced a radically new reading of surrealist thought and practice. Benjamin and Andre Breton emerge in her account as important representatives of what Cohen calls "Gothic Marxism", whose fascination with the irrational aspects of social processes she highlights in discussions of Benjamin's "Passagen-Werk" and Breton's major prose texts from the 1920s and 1930s. Cohen analyzes the links between Breton's surrealist fusion of psychoanalysis and Marxism, and Benjamin's post-Enlightenment challenge to Marxist theory. She also argues that Breton's surrealist Marxism plays a formative role in shaping post-World War II French intellectual life and is of continued relevance to the contemporary intellectual scene.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0520080238
• ISBN 13: 9780520080232
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 271