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"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



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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

The Challenge of Surrealism

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      Publisher University of Minnesota Press
      Published 15 November 2015
      ISBN-13 9780816656172
      978-0816656172
      ISBN-10 0816656177
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      Published diaries, letters and journals Philosophy Philosophy: aesthetics

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade 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 Contents

      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

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