Surrealism in the Imperfect
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s encounters with surrealism in Paris during the late 1920s and early 1930s, “Surrealism in the Imperfect” proceeds from a reflection on browsing for books as a formative period of research. The article focuses on the history of post-WWII surrealist publishing and the turn-of-the-millennium remainder market as terrain for reconsidering Benjamin’s notion of “profane illumination” as consistent with the surrealist movement’s project of revaluing the concept of value.
Source: Otago German studies
Author: Jonathan P. Eburne
Institution: Pennsylvania State University
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4408158131