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Title Surrealism against the current : tracts and declarations / edited and translated by Michael Richardson and Krzysztof Fijałkowski
Published London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2001

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Contents Acknowledgements; Introduction: Surrealism as a Collective Adventure ; Note on the Selection of Texts ; 1. The Historical Orientation of Surrealism ; Introduction to La Révolution surréaliste ; Declaration of 27 January 1925 ; The Position of Surrealism ; Letter to André Breton ; Dialectics of the Dialectic ; Inaugural Rupture ; High Frequency ; Note for Le Surréalisme, même; Confronting the Liquidators ; Let's Get to the Point ; The Platform of Prague ; The Possible Against the Current ; When Surrealism Turned Fifty ; Hermetic Bird ; The Platform of Prague Twenty Years On
2. Surrealism vis-à-vis Revolutionary Politics The Revolution First and Always! ; Burn Them Down! ; Mobilisation Against War is Not Peace ; 'Planet Without a Visa' ; When the Surrealists Were Right ; The Knife in the Wound ; Counter-attack: Union of the Struggle of Revolutionary Intellectuals ; Declaration: The Truth About the Moscow Trials ; For a Revolutionary Union ; Neither Your War Nor Your Peace! ; Binary Star: Letter to a Group of Militants 121Hungary, Rising Sun ; The Example of Cuba and the Revolution ; Neither Today Nor In This Way
The Surrealists to the French Section of the Fourth International Portrait of the Enemy ; Down with France! ; The Public Sphere and Curiosity ; 3. The Security of the Spirit ; Letter to the Head Doctors of Insane Asylums ; Address to the Dalai Lama; Address to the Pope ; Open the Prisons/ Disband the Army ; The Fiftieth Anniversary of Hysteria ; The Aragon Affair ; Poetry Transfigured ; The Fireships of Fear ; Back to Your Kennels, Yelpers of God ; Murderer! ; Facing the Mob ; The Heart's Hue and Cry ; Warning Shot ; Against Céline ; Expose the Physicists, Empty the Laboratories!
It's Up to You Run If You Must ; The Stockholm Reminder ; Beautiful like BEAUTIFUL LIKE ; 4. Declarations on Colonialism ; To the Soldiers and Sailors ; The World in the Surrealist Era ; Don't Visit the Colonial Exhibition ; First Appraisal of the Colonial Exhibition ; Legitimate Defence ; Murderous Humanitarianism ; Freedom is a Vietnamese Word ; Declaration on the Right to Insubordination in the Algerian War ; Appendix 1; Jean Schuster, The Fourth Canto ; Appendix 2; Definitions of Surrealism ; Select Bibliography ; Notes ; Introduction; Chapter 1 & 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Appendix 1
Index Abellio, R. 214; ACTUAL 211; Adamov, A. 150; alchemy 179; Alquié, F. 210; Analogon 85; anarchism; 46; 93; 121; 124-5; 139; Anti-Oedipus [Deleuze and Guattari] 32; Apollinaire, G. 179; Aquinas, T. 162; Aragon, L.; 5; 13-4; 53; 72; 94; 102; 139; 143; 146-50; 173-4; 188; 203-4; 211; 215; Aristotle; 45; 153; 162; Arnaud, N. 29; Arnim, A. von 43; art; 52-3; 60; 65; 79-80; 123-4; 129-30; Artaud, A.; 11-13; 23; 57; 140; 203-4; 211; Audoin, P.; 4; 206; 210; Averroès 159
Summary A collection of Surrealists texts from across Europe
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-209) and index
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Subject Surrealism.
Surrealist.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy.
Surrealism
Surrealisme.
Filosofische aspecten.
Politieke aspecten.
Ethische aspecten.
Form Electronic book
Author Richardson, Michael, 1953- editor, translator.
Fijałkowski, Krzysztof, editor, translator.
ISBN 9781783716180
1783716185
9781783716197
1783716193
0745317782
9780745317786