Susan H. Gillespie is founding director of the Institute for International Liberal Education at Bard College, where she is vice president for special global initiatives. She has translated prose and poetry from German to English.

• ContentsEditor’s Note Introduction. Departures: Critical Theory and SurrealismRita BischofSurrealism: Last Snapshot of the European IntelligentsiaWalter BenjaminSurrealism ReconsideredTheodor W. AdornoCritical Theory and Surreal PracticeElisabeth LenkCorrespondence between Theodor W. Adorno and Elisabeth Lenk, 1962–1969Introduction to the CorrespondenceElisabeth LenkSense and Sensibility: Afterword to Louis Aragon’s Paris PeasantElisabeth LenkIntroduction to the German Edition of Charles Fourier’s The Theory of the Four Movements and the General DestiniesElisabeth LenkSurrealist ReadingsCastor Zwieback (Theodor W. Adorno and Carl Dreyfus)NotesPublication HistoryIndex

"The Challenge of Surrealism is an important intellectual and personal document that not only illuminates some of Adorno’s major philosophical concerns from an unexpected perspective, but also presents the record of a deeply personal and complex relationship characterized by attraction and repulsion, desire and distance, immediacy and deferral."-Gerhard Richter, Brown University

Susan H. Gillespie is founding director of the Institute for International Liberal Education at Bard College, where she is vice president for special global initiatives. She has translated prose and poetry from German to English.

• ContentsEditor’s Note Introduction. Departures: Critical Theory and SurrealismRita BischofSurrealism: Last Snapshot of the European IntelligentsiaWalter BenjaminSurrealism ReconsideredTheodor W. AdornoCritical Theory and Surreal PracticeElisabeth LenkCorrespondence between Theodor W. Adorno and Elisabeth Lenk, 1962–1969Introduction to the CorrespondenceElisabeth LenkSense and Sensibility: Afterword to Louis Aragon’s Paris PeasantElisabeth LenkIntroduction to the German Edition of Charles Fourier’s The Theory of the Four Movements and the General DestiniesElisabeth LenkSurrealist ReadingsCastor Zwieback (Theodor W. Adorno and Carl Dreyfus)NotesPublication HistoryIndex

"The Challenge of Surrealism is an important intellectual and personal document that not only illuminates some of Adorno’s major philosophical concerns from an unexpected perspective, but also presents the record of a deeply personal and complex relationship characterized by attraction and repulsion, desire and distance, immediacy and deferral."-Gerhard Richter, Brown University

Susan H. Gillespie is founding director of the Institute for International Liberal Education at Bard College, where she is vice president for special global initiatives. She has translated prose and poetry from German to English.

• ContentsEditor’s Note Introduction. Departures: Critical Theory and SurrealismRita BischofSurrealism: Last Snapshot of the European IntelligentsiaWalter BenjaminSurrealism ReconsideredTheodor W. AdornoCritical Theory and Surreal PracticeElisabeth LenkCorrespondence between Theodor W. Adorno and Elisabeth Lenk, 1962–1969Introduction to the CorrespondenceElisabeth LenkSense and Sensibility: Afterword to Louis Aragon’s Paris PeasantElisabeth LenkIntroduction to the German Edition of Charles Fourier’s The Theory of the Four Movements and the General DestiniesElisabeth LenkSurrealist ReadingsCastor Zwieback (Theodor W. Adorno and Carl Dreyfus)NotesPublication HistoryIndex

"The Challenge of Surrealism is an important intellectual and personal document that not only illuminates some of Adorno’s major philosophical concerns from an unexpected perspective, but also presents the record of a deeply personal and complex relationship characterized by attraction and repulsion, desire and distance, immediacy and deferral."-Gerhard Richter, Brown University