Profane Illumination - Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution (Paperback, New ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism, 5
Release date:	March 1995
First published:	1993
Authors:	Margaret Cohen
Dimensions:	229 x 164 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	271
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-20150-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
LSN:	0-520-20150-7
Barcode:	9780520201507

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