Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution

Univ of California Press (1995)
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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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Walter Benjamin.Peter Osborne - forthcoming - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
'A demented form of the familiar': Postmodernism and educational research.Maggie Maclure - 2006 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 40 (2):223–239.

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