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The Challenge of Surrealism: The Correspondence of Theodor W. Adorno and Elisabeth Lenk
Elisabeth Lenk
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Description for The Challenge of Surrealism: The Correspondence of Theodor W. Adorno and Elisabeth Lenk
Paperback. Editor(s): Gillespie, Susan H. Translator(s): Gillespie, Susan H. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JJ; BJ; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. .
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 professor. The correspondence is accompanied by a selection of documents that bring additional depth and context to the letters and their engagement with the art and ... Read more
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 professor. The correspondence is accompanied by a selection of documents that bring additional depth and context to the letters and their engagement with the art and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
335g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816656172
SKU
V9780816656172
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About Elisabeth Lenk
Susan H. Gillespie is founding director of the Institute for International Liberal Education at Bard College, where she is vice president for special global initiatives. She has translated prose and poetry from German to English.
Reviews for The Challenge of Surrealism: The Correspondence of Theodor W. Adorno and Elisabeth Lenk
The Challenge of Surrealism is an important intellectual and personal document that not only illuminates some of Adorno's major philosophical concerns from an unexpected perspective, but also presents the record of a deeply personal and complex relationship characterized by attraction and repulsion, desire and distance, immediacy and deferral. -Gerhard Richter, Brown University