Existential Monday : Philosophical essays / Benjamin Fondane ; translated from the French and edited by Bruce Baugh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fondane, Benjamin, 1898-1944.

Contributor:

Baugh, Bruce, editor, translator.

Rubens, Andrew, editor, translator.

Series:

New York Review Books classics

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Existentialism.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 118 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Books, [2016]

Summary:

"Benjamin Fondane--who was born and educated in Romania, moved as an adult to Paris, lived for a time in Buenos Aires, where he was close to Victoria Ocampo, Jorge Luis Borges's friend and publisher, and died in Auschwitz--was an artist and thinker who found in every limit, in every border, "a torture and a spur." Poet, critic, man of the theater, movie director, Fondane was the most daring of the existentialists, a metaphysical anarchist, affirming individual against those great abstractions that limit human freedom--the State, History, the Law, the Idea. Existential Monday is the first selection of his philosophical work to appear in English. Here Fondane, until now little-known except to specialists, emerges as one of the great French philosophers of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

A Note on the Text

Acknowledgments

Existential Monday and the Sunday of History

Preface for the Present Moment

Man Before History, or, The Sound and the Fury

Boredom

Selected Bibliography

Notes

Notes:

Translations of selections from Fontane's various philosophical works, including Lundi existentiel (Publisher's information).

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Fondane, Benjamin, 1898-1944. Lundi essentiel. Selections. English

Other Format:

Online version: Fondane, Benjamin, 1898-1944. Existential Monday.

ISBN:

9781590178980

159017898X

OCLC:

919452138

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