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[The Work of Art and Philosophical Thought]

Manuscript

Author

Author André Breton
People cited Gaston Bachelard, Benjamin Constant, Friedrich Engels, Charles Fourier, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, d' Holbach, Karl Marx, Owen, Nicolas Edme Restif, dit Restif de la Bretonne, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Claude Henri de Rouvroy de Saint-Simon, Henri Beyle, dit Stendhal

Description

Manuscript dated May 1938 of a lecture that was to have been given in Mexico City on 3 June 1938.

Entitled ‘The Work of Art and Philosophical Thought’ by the editors of the second volume of the Pléiade collected works in which it appears, this lecture given in Mexico City in May 1938 [sic] returns to a romantic and materialist heritage and to a certain history of thought proposed by Marx and Engels. Breton, while remaining in the same lineage, makes his differences heard, in particular by noting the honour of the utopians of the nineteenth century towards whom – as competition demands - the creators of scientific socialism had been severe. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]

Autograph manuscript, dated May 1938.

Bibliography

André Breton (Édition de Marguerite Bonnet avec la collaboration de Philippe Bernier, Étienne-Alain Hubert et José Pierre), « Conférences de Mexico », Inédits II, Œuvres complètes, tome II, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 1992, p. 1267-1275, notes p. 1827-1836