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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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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Profane Illumination
• Subtitle: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution
• Author: Margaret Cohen
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 271
• EAN: 9780520201507
• ISBN: 0520201507
• ID: 04616062
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 466 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 164 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. March 1995

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