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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Introduction
Notes
PART I: Contexts
1. Heraclitus, Hegel, and dialectical understanding
Notes
2. Hermeticism and the magical tradition
3. Freudian origins
Notes
4. Utopia: the revolution in question
Capitalism is more revolutionary than communism
Artaud’s integral revolution
Charles Fourier or the release from revolution
A collagist community
Notes
5. The Marquis de Sade and revolutionary violence
Notes
6. ‘The speaking flame’: the Romantic connection
7. Dada
Notes
PART II: Key concepts
8. Community at play
Notes
9. Otherness and self-identity
Notes
10. Poetics
Notes
11. Objective chance
From chance to objective chance
The theoretical foundations of objective chance
Identity and the encounter
Notes
12. The chance encounter: language, and madness
Surrealism and a philosophical anthropology of madness
Note
13. Dream: a manifesto of the manifest dream
D’Alembert’s dream
Philosophy of the dream
Leiris, Trost and Caillois
Notes
14. Amour fou – mad love
Notes
15. Convulsive beauty
Notes
16. The object
Surrealism’s objects
The object in crisis
Notes
17. Black humour
Note
18. The ecological imperative
Ecopoetics and the ‘entangled bank’ of surrealist art
Dismal Darwinism and surrealist anti-anthropocentricism
Roger Caillois, ecology of mind, and ‘adventurous coherency’
19. Magic art
Notes
20. The marvellous
Notes
21. The supreme point
Notes
Chronology of surrealist engagement with ideas
Bibliography
Index
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