Profane Illumination : Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution / Margaret Cohen; ed. by Margaret Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Margaret, Author.

Contributor:

Cohen, Margaret, Editor.

Series:

Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1993]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

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 a Paris: Benjamin's Phantasmagoria

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jan 2024)

ISBN:

0-585-27142-9

0-520-91652-2

OCLC:

45730873