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Reimagining Life: Philosophical Pessimism and the Revolution of Surrealism

Reimagining Life: Philosophical Pessimism and the Revolution of Surrealism

Kadri, Raihan

Hardcover

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1611470129
ISBN13: 9781611470123
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: Jun 7 2011
Pages: 206
Weight: 1.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
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.

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