The Epistemology of the “Great Invisibles”: A Surrealist Myth and Its Analogues in Modern Esoteric Imagination

The central collective myth of surrealism, Les grands transparents, was designed by André Breton in 1947 as a means for imagining a desirable society through effecting a vitalizing sense of the unknown and a “decentering of man”. As a contribution to the recent re-examination of surrealism in view o...

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Main Author: Nenzén, Niklas (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2020]
In: Aries
Year: 2020, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 207-239
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Breton, André 1896-1966 / Surrealism / Myth / Collective consciousness / Episteme / Rosicrucians / Anthroposophy
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
AZ New religious movements
Further subjects:B Surrealism
B Anthroposophy
B Lectorium Rosicrucianum
B Myth
B Occultism
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