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The Challenge of Surrealism

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

The Challenge of Surrealism

By Elisabeth Lenk, Theodor W. Adorno

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About the book

The correspondence between the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno and his politically active graduate student Elisabeth Lenk offers fresh insights into both Adorno's view of surrealism and its relation to the student uprisings of 1960s France and Germany. Written between 1962, when Lenk moved to Paris and persuaded an initially reluctant Adorno to supervise her sociology dissertation on the surrealists, and Adorno's death in 1969, these letters reveal a surprisingly tender side of the distinguished p...Show more

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9780816656172

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University of Minnesota Press

Published year

2015

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1

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The Challenge of Surrealism

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Paperback

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