Margaret Cohen is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University.

""This challenging, often profound book investigates the 'visual rhetoric of understanding' manifest in surrealism's and Marxism's 'emancipatory vocabularies' and dream imagery. Drawing upon Walter Benjamin's and Andre Breton's theoretical, critical, and literary writings, Cohen posits a genre of 'Gothic Marxism, ' which owes much to Freud's psychoanalytic oeuvre. This genre links dialectical thinking, dreaming, and historical awakening with political, cultural, and artistic bricolage. . . . [In addition,] the book contains evocative illustrations."

• Illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgments 1. Gothic Marxism 2. Benjamin's Marxisms 3. Qui suis-je? Nadja's Haunting Subject 4. The Ghosts of Paris 5. The Questions of Modern Materialism 6. The Rencontre Capitale 7. Benjamin Reading the Rencontre 8. Le Diable á Paris: Benjamin's Phantasmagoria Bibliography Index

Margaret Cohen is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University.

""This challenging, often profound book investigates the 'visual rhetoric of understanding' manifest in surrealism's and Marxism's 'emancipatory vocabularies' and dream imagery. Drawing upon Walter Benjamin's and Andre Breton's theoretical, critical, and literary writings, Cohen posits a genre of 'Gothic Marxism, ' which owes much to Freud's psychoanalytic oeuvre. This genre links dialectical thinking, dreaming, and historical awakening with political, cultural, and artistic bricolage. . . . [In addition,] the book contains evocative illustrations."

• Illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgments 1. Gothic Marxism 2. Benjamin's Marxisms 3. Qui suis-je? Nadja's Haunting Subject 4. The Ghosts of Paris 5. The Questions of Modern Materialism 6. The Rencontre Capitale 7. Benjamin Reading the Rencontre 8. Le Diable á Paris: Benjamin's Phantasmagoria Bibliography Index

Margaret Cohen is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University.

""This challenging, often profound book investigates the 'visual rhetoric of understanding' manifest in surrealism's and Marxism's 'emancipatory vocabularies' and dream imagery. Drawing upon Walter Benjamin's and Andre Breton's theoretical, critical, and literary writings, Cohen posits a genre of 'Gothic Marxism, ' which owes much to Freud's psychoanalytic oeuvre. This genre links dialectical thinking, dreaming, and historical awakening with political, cultural, and artistic bricolage. . . . [In addition,] the book contains evocative illustrations."

• Illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgments 1. Gothic Marxism 2. Benjamin's Marxisms 3. Qui suis-je? Nadja's Haunting Subject 4. The Ghosts of Paris 5. The Questions of Modern Materialism 6. The Rencontre Capitale 7. Benjamin Reading the Rencontre 8. Le Diable á Paris: Benjamin's Phantasmagoria Bibliography Index