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Manifestoes of Surrealism
André
Breton
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MANIFESTO OF SURREALISM (1924)
"I
could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane."1a
"Our
brains are dulled by the incurable mania of wanting to make the
unknown known, classifiable. The desire for analysis wins out over
the sentiments."1b
"I
believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and
reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of
absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so to speak."1c*
"Let us
not mince words: . . . only the marvelous is beautiful."1d
"We
really live by our fantasies when we give free rein to them."1e*
" . . .
[T]his phrase astonished me: . . . it was something like: "There
is a man cut in two by the window . . . ""1f
"SURREALISM, n.
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by
which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written
word, or in any other manner -- the actual functioning of thought.
Dictated by thought, in the absence of any control exercised by
reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern."1g
SOLUBLE FISH (1924)
"In New
York harbor it was no longer the Statue of Liberty that lighted
the world, but Love, which is different."1h
SECOND MANIFESTO OF SURREALISM
(1930)
"The
simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the
street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can
pull the trigger, into the crowd. Anyone who, at least once in
his life, has not dreamed of thus putting an end to the petty
system of debasement and cretinization in effect has a
well-defined place in that crowd, with his belly at barrel level.
. . I simply wanted to bring in here the element of
human despair . . ."1i
" . . .
[T]here is a mirror in the mind over which the vast majority of
mankind could lean without seeing themselves."1j
POLITICAL POSITION OF SURREALISM (1935)
"Art
is not a submission, it is a conquest.
The conquest of what?
Of feelings and the means to express them.
About what?
About the unconscious, almost always; about logic, very often."1k*
" . . .
[W]e live in an era in which man belongs to himself less than ever
. . ."1l
* Emphasis added.
1
Andre Breton
(1896-1966).
Manifestoes of Surrealism. Translated by Richard
Seaver and Helen R. Lane. University of Michigan, 1969.
Ann Arbor, MI:
University of Michigan Press, 1972. (Originally published in
Paris, France, by Jean-Jacques Pauvert editeur as
Manifestes du
Surrealisme,
1962.)
MANIFESTO OF
SURREALISM (1924)
a Manifesto of Surrealism (1924), at 5.
b Ibid., at 9.
c Ibid., at 14.
d Ibid., at 14.
e Ibid., at 18.
f Ibid., at 21.
g Ibid., at 26.
SOLUBLE
FISH (1924)
h Soluble
Fish (1924), at 91.
SECOND MANIFESTO OF SURREALISM
(1930)
i Second
Manifesto of Surrealism (1930), at
125-126.
j Ibid., at 181n.
POLITICAL POSITION OF SURREALISM (1935)
k
Political Position of Today's Art (1935), at 229.
l Ibid., at 232.
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ANDRE BRETON |
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Andre Breton
(1896-1966).
Manifestoes of Surrealism. Translated by Richard
Seaver and Helen R. Lane. University of Michigan, 1969.
Ann Arbor, MI:
University of Michigan Press, 1972. (Originally published in
Paris, France, by Jean-Jacques Pauvert editeur as
Manifestes du
Surrealisme,
1962.)
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY:
THOMAS JEFFERSON |
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Thomas Jefferson
On Politics & Government. Quotations from the
Writings of Thomas Jefferson. Collected and
edited by Eyler
Robert Coates, Sr. Metairie, Jefferson Parish,
LA. Charlottesville, VA: University of
Virginia, 1995,
http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/index.html.
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PHILOSOPHY-CRITICAL THEORY:
GEORGES BATAILLE |
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Georges Bataille
(1897-1962). Inner Experience.
Translated, with an Introduction, by Leslie Anne Boldt. Albany,
NY: State University of New York Press, 1988. (Originally
published as L’Experience Interieure,
Editions Gallimard, 1954.)
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PHILOSOPHY:
ALAIN BADIOU |
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Alain Badiou (1937-).
Being and Event.
Translated by Oliver Feltham. New York, NY: Continuum, 2005.
(Originally published in French as
L’être et l’événement,
Editions du Seuil, 1988.
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HISTORY-POLITICS:
RALPH NADER |
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Ralph Nader.
The Ralph Nader
Reader. Foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. Ralph
Nader, 2000. New York, NY: Seven Stories Press.
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Interesting Link
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HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY:
JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER |
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Johann Gottfried von Herder
(1744-1803).
Philosophical Writings.
Translated and
Edited by Michael N. Forster. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2002.
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PHILOSOPHY-HERMENEUTICS-CRITICISM: FRIEDRICH DANIEL ERNST
SCHLEIERMACHER |
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Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834).
Hermeneutics And Criticism and Other Writings.
Translated and Edited by Andrew Bowie. Cambridge, U.K.:
Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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CURRENT AFFAIRS: JOHN ZERZAN |
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John Zerzan
(b. 1943).
Running on
Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization.
John Zerzan, 2002. Los Angeles, CA: Feral House.
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PHILOSOPHY-METAPHYSICS-EPISTEMOLOGY: ARISTOTLE |
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Aristotle.
De Anima.
Translated by R. D. Hicks.
Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1991.
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PHILOSOPHY-LOGIC: EDMUND HUSSERL |
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Edmund Husserl.
Formal and Transcendental Logic.
Translated by Dorion Cairns. The Hague, Netherlands: Martinus
Nijhoff, 1969. English Translation of
Formale und transzendentale Logic.
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PHILOSOPHY: EDMUND HUSSERL |
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Edmund Husserl
(1859-1938).
The
Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An
Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy.
Translated, with an Introduction, by David Carr. Evanston, IL:
Northwestern University Press, 1970.
(Originally published in German under the title
Die Krisis der
europäischen Wissenschaften und die transzendentale
Phänomenologie: Eine Einleitung in die phänomenologische Philosophie,
edited by Walter Biemel.
The Hague:
Martinus Nijhoff, 1954; second printing 1962.)
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EROTIC LITERATURE-PHILOSOPHY: MARQUIS DE SADE |
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CONTROVERSIAL
Marquis de Sade. The Complete Marquis de Sade.
(Volumes I and II.) Translated from the original French text by
Dr. Paul J. Gillette. With an Introduction by John S. Yankowski.
Paul J. Gillette, 1966, 2005. Los Angeles, CA: Holloway House
Publishing Co., 2006.
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PHILOSOPHY-PSYCHOLOGY: FRANZ CLEMENS BRENTANO |
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Franz Brentano.
Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint.
Edited by Oscar Kraus. English Edition edited by Linda L.
McAlister. With a new Introduction by Peter Simons. Translated by
Antos C. Rancurello, D. B. Terrell and Linda L. McAlister. New
York, NY: Routledge, 1973,1995. Originally published in 1874 by
Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig, as Psychologie vom empirischen
Standpunkte.
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THEORIES OF MEDIA: JEAN BAUDRILLARD |
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Jean
Baudrillard. Simulacra and
Simulation. Translated by Sheila Faria Glaser.
Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 1994.
Originally published in French by Éditions Galilée, 1981.
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PHILOSOPHY: JOHN DEWEY |
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John Dewey
(1859-1952). Essays in Experimental
Logic. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc.,
1954, 2004. (Unabridged republication of the edition
published by the University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL,
1916.)
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PSYCHOLOGY: GUSTAVE LE BON |
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Gustave Le
Bon (1841-1931). The Crowd: A Study
of the Popular Mind. Mineola, NY: Dover
Publications, Inc., 2002. (An unabridged republication of a
standard English translation of the work originally
published in 1895 in France as La
psychologie des foules.)
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PHILOSOPHY: GEORGE SANTAYANA |
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George Santayana
(1863-1952). Scepticism and Animal
Faith: Introduction to a System of Philosophy.
New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1955.
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LOGIC:
GEORGE BOOLE |
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George Boole
(1815-1864). An
Investigation of the Laws of Thought on Which Are Founded
the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities.
Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1958. (Originally
published by Macmillan in 1854.)
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SOCIOLOGY: WILLIAM JOSIAH GOODE |
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William J.
Goode.
The
Celebration of Heroes: Prestige as a Social Control System.
The Regents of the University of California, 1978. Berkeley,
CA: University of California.
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PHILOSOPHY: JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE |
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J. G. Fichte
(1762-1814). The
Science of Knowing: J. G. Fichte’s 1804 Lectures on the
Wissenschaftslehre. Translated by Walter E.
Wright. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press,
2005.
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PSYCHOLOGY-RELIGION: CARL GUSTAV JUNG |
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Carl Gustav Jung. Answer to Job.
50th-Aniversary Edition. Translated by R.F.C.
Hunt. Bollingen Foundation, New York, NY, 1958. Princeton
University Press, 1969 (2nd Edition), 1973
(Editorial Note). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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SEXUAL MEDICINE: WILLIAM
H. MASTERS AND VIRGINIA E. JOHNSON |
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SEXUAL MEDICINE
William H. Masters and
Virginia E. Johnson.
Human Sexual Response. William H. Masters and
Virginia E. Johnson, 1966. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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POETRY-POLITICS: EZRA
WESTON LOOMIS POUND |
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CONTROVERSIAL
Ezra Pound (1885-1972).
The Cantos of
Ezra Pound. Ezra
Pound, 1934, 1937, 1940, 1948, 1950, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1963,
1965, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1971. The Estate of Ezra Pound,
1969, 1972. The Trustees of the Ezra Pound Literary Property
Trust, 1973, 1986. Vice Versa, 1942. Harcourt, Brace
& World, Inc., 1950. New York, NY: New Directions Publishing
Corporation.
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