Profane illumination : Walter Benjamin and the Paris of surrealist revolution / Margaret Cohen.

ISBN:

9780520916524

9780585271422

Title:

Profane illumination : Walter Benjamin and the Paris of surrealist revolution / Margaret Cohen.

Author:

Cohen, Margaret, 1958-

Personal Author:

Cohen, Margaret, 1958-

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 271 pages) : illustrations.

Series:

Weimar and now ; 5

General Note:

Based on the author's thesis--Yale University.

Local Note:

eBooks on EBSCOhost

Personal Subject:

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

Subject Term:

Philosophy, Marxist.

Surrealism.

Philosophy, German -- 20th century.

Geographic Term:

Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

1993

Publication Information:

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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.

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