Profane Illumination - Walter Benjamin & the Paris of Surrealist Revolution (Paper)

1. Auflage 1995
ISBN: 978-0-520-20150-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 271 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

Reihe: Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Margaret

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations

Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

1. Gothic Marxism

2. Benjamin's Marxisms

3. Qui suis-je? Nadja's Haunting Subject

4. The Ghosts of Paris

5. The Questions of Modern Materialism

6. The Rencontre Capitale

7. Benjamin Reading the Rencontre

8. Le Diable á Paris: Benjamin's Phantasmagoria

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Margaret Cohen is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University.