Abstract The introduction to the special forum on Fascism in the Canon of Literature and Theology reviews the history of the journal's engagement with the three thinkers discussed in the forum.
This article examines Surrealism's philosophical foundations through esoteric interpretations of Hegel's dialectics. Using Glenn Alexander Magee's systematization as heuristic tool, I demonstrate how three Hermetic structures-initiation, holism, and magic/imagination-organized Surrealist poetic practice through Romantic and Symbolist mediations. Analyzing Breton's sublime point, automatic writing, and Les grands transparents, I argue Surrealists engaged with Hegelian-Hermetic frameworks that had already sublimated theological operations into philosophical method. Unlike readings emphasizing Christian secularization, this reveals "theology without theism": poetic practices deploying theological operations (transformation, correspondence, and mediation) while refusing transcendent referents. Surrealism represents neither religion's disappearance nor return, but theology's reconfiguration through heterodox poetic experimentation.
