The Challenge of Surrealism
University of Minnesota Press (Verlag)
978-0-8166-5617-2 (ISBN)
Filling in the background of Adorno and Lenk’s lively exchange, the volume includes new translations of classic essays by Walter Benjamin (“Surrealism: Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia”) and Adorno (“Surrealism Reconsidered”), along with a collection of short prose readings by Adorno and the writer-scholar Carl Dreyfus and three original essays by Lenk: her afterword to Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon, her Introduction to the German edition of Charles Fourier’s The Theory of the Four Movements and the General Destinies, and her incisive essay “Critical Theory and Surreal Practice.” An Introduction by Lenk’s student, the contemporary writer and critic Rita Bischof, points to the continuing challenge of surrealist politics.
This remarkable body of correspondence appears here in English for the first time, as do Adorno and Dreyfus’s surrealist readings and the essays by Lenk. Together, they provide a rich mine of critical material for reassessing the significance of the surrealist movement and its successors.
Susan H. Gillespie is founding director of the Institute for International Liberal Education at Bard College, where she is vice president for special global initiatives. She has translated prose and poetry from German to English.
Contents
Editor’s Note
Introduction. Departures: Critical Theory and Surrealism
Rita Bischof
Surrealism: Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia
Walter Benjamin
Surrealism Reconsidered
Theodor W. Adorno
Critical Theory and Surreal Practice
Elisabeth Lenk
Correspondence between Theodor W. Adorno and Elisabeth Lenk, 1962–1969
Introduction to the Correspondence
Elisabeth Lenk
Sense and Sensibility: Afterword to Louis Aragon’s Paris Peasant
Elisabeth Lenk
Introduction to the German Edition of Charles Fourier’s The Theory of the Four Movements and the General Destinies
Elisabeth Lenk
Surrealist Readings
Castor Zwieback (Theodor W. Adorno and Carl Dreyfus)
Notes
Publication History
Index
Übersetzer | Susan H. Gillespie |
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Verlagsort | Minnesota |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8166-5617-7 / 0816656177 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8166-5617-2 / 9780816656172 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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