Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution

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.

Author: Margaret Cohen
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 03/06/1995
Series: Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism #5
Pages: 271
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.01w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780520201507