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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Challenge of Surrealism is an important intellectual and personal document that not only illuminates some of Adorno’s major philosophical concerns from an unexpected perspective, but also presents the record of a deeply personal and complex relationship characterized by attraction and repulsion, desire and distance, immediacy and deferral."—Gerhard Richter, Brown University
Table of ContentsContents
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
