Profane Illumination : Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution : 5

Author(s): Cohen, Margaret,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 06/03/1995,
Pagination: 271 pages,
Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism,
Imprint: University of California Press,
Published By: University of California Press,
Book Classification: Literary studies: general,
Dimensions: 229 x 164 x 19
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9780520201507

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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 life and is of continued relevance to the contemporary intellectual scene.