THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF REVOLT: HERACLITUS, SURREALISM'S LIGHTNING-CONDUCTOR.(Critical Essay)

From: symploke | Date: January 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

We are wrong to consider that we establish the level of a culture through the analysis and critique of the masterpieces of that culture. Already such a classification presupposes on the part of the critic the realization of a hypothesis. The exceptional has no documentary value. What permits us to form an idea of the intellectual reality of a milieu, of a period, that which is the object of critique, is the current thinking, the thinking which is in circulation.

Louis Aragon, "Philosophie des Paratonnerres" (45)

In the October 1927 issue of La Revolution Surrealiste, the ...

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