Surrealism: Key Concepts (Paperback)

Notes on Contributors Introduction (Krzysztof Fijalkowski and Michael Richardson) PART I: CONTEXTS Heraclitus, Hegel and dialectical understanding (Jonathan P. Eburne) Hermeticism and the magical tradition (Guy Girard) Freudian Origins (Jean-Michel Rabate) Utopia: the Revolution in Question (Georges Sebbag) Sade and revolutionary violence (Michael Richardson) ‘The Speaking Flame’: the Romantic Connection (Michael Lowy) Dada (Krzysztof Fijalkowski) PART 2: KEY CONCEPTS Community at Play (Raymond Spiteri) Otherness and Self-Identity (Michael Richardson) Poetics (Michael Richardson) Objective Chance (Raihan Kadri, Michael Richardson and Krzysztof Fijalkowski) The Chance Encounter: Language and Madness (Michael Stone-Richards) Dream: a Manifesto of the Manifest Dream (Georges Sebbag) Mad Love (Dawn Ades and Michael Richardson) Convulsive Beauty (Krzysztof Fijalkowski) The Object (Krzysztof Fijalkowski) Black Humour (Michael Richardson) The Ecological Imperative (Donna Roberts) Magic Art (Bertrand Schmitt) The Marvellous (Joyce Suechun Cheng and Michael Richardson) The Supreme Point (Krzysztof Fijalkowski and Michael Richardson) Chronology of Surrealism Bibliography Index