{"product_id":"existence-is-elsewhere-michael-richardson-9781350531413","title":"Existence Is Elsewhere: The Philosophical Frameworks of Surrealism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eExistence is Elsewhere \u003c\/i\u003eoffers the first comprehensive account of surrealism as a movement sustained by philosophical ideas.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving far beyond the familiar narrative linking surrealism to Freud, this study reveals a century-long engagement with thinkers as diverse as Hegel, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Schelling, Novalis, Nietzsche, and Fourier, as well as traditions outside the Western canon, from ancient Egypt to Chinese thought. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMichael Richardson shows that surrealism was born of a network of encounters: collective experiments, shared crises after the First World War, and intense friendships that shaped its emergence between 1919 and 1924. Its philosophical orientation arose not from systematic study but from a \"philosophical poetics\" - a way of thinking through practice, intuition, and experiment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcross ten chapters, Richardson traces surrealism's relationship with dialectical thinking, analogy, myth, and the marvellous. Hegel's ideas on mediation and becoming illuminate Breton's concerns with identity and recognition; Heraclitus' unity of opposites and Parmenides' journey into the unknown resonate with surrealism's pursuit of an \"elsewhere\" beyond perceptual reality; Schelling's philosophy of nature and the unconscious opens new vistas for understanding surrealism's animist sensibility, while Nietzsche's pessimism and affirmation of life sharpen its critique of modernity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eExistence is Elsewhere \u003c\/i\u003eis an essential resource for readers in philosophy, literature, art history, and modern intellectual history, offering a bold reconceptualization of the history of surrealism, and what it may still become.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Richardson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350531413\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350531413\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/18\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.43w x 1.00d","brand":"Michael Richardson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":50846064115967,"sku":"9781350531413","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/existence-is-elsewhere-michael-richardson-9781350531413","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}