Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist RevolutionMargaret 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. |
Contents
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Benjamins Marxisms | 17 |
Qui suisje? Nadjas Haunting Subject | 57 |
The Ghosts of Paris | 77 |
The Questions of Modern Materialism | 120 |
The Rencontre Capitale | 154 |
Benjamin Reading the Rencontre | 173 |
Le Diable a Paris Benjamins Phantasmagoria | 217 |
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