# Profane Illumination, Vol. 1

By **Margaret Cohen**

- ISBN-13: 9780520080232
- Series: [Weimar And Now: German Cultural Criticism Ser](https://mybookbandits.com/series/weimar-and-now-german-cultural-criticism-ser)
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 271
- Published: 12 Jul 1993

## About this book

This study analyzes the links between Andre Breton's surrealist fusion of psychoanalysis and Walter Benjamin's post-Enlightenment challenge to Marxist theory. It argues that Breton's surrealist Marxism played a role in shaping post-World War II intellectual life in France.

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