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Reimagining Life

By Raihan Kadri

Reimagining Life

By Raihan Kadri

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In Reimagining Life, Raihan Kadri presents a pioneering critical history of the epistemological and theoretical origins of the Surrealist movement and its subsequent legacy. The book contains extensive examination and new interpretations of the oft-neglected theoretical writing of Surrealists such as Louis Aragon, Antonin Artaud, André Breton, and Salvador Dalí, in order to demonstrate how Surrealism embodied a sensibility connected to a broader lineage of philosophical pessimism-involving such figures as Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, and Arthur Rimbaud-which Kadri argues represents a particular strain of modernism aimed at breaking human thought away from the constraint of various forms of idealism, expanding the possibilities for knowledge and human freedom. This innovative, wide-ranging study deftly traverses fields of art, politics, philosophy, psychology, and literature. Reimagining Life redefines Surrealism's place in modern intellectual history and offers a new vision of how Surrealist discourse can be connected to contemporary debates in cultural, critical, and theoretical studies.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
206
Release Date:
2011-06-07
Publication Date:
2011-06-07
Publisher:
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1611470129
ISBN13:
9781611470123
Weight:
791 g
Height:
221 cm
Width:
286 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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