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

Author
Fondane, Benjamin, 1898-1944 [Browse]
Uniform title
Works. Selections. English [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Translated from
French
Published/​Created
New York : New York Review Books, [2016]
Description
xxxix, 118 pages ; 21 cm.

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Library of Congress genre(s)
Getty AAT genre
Series
New York Review Books classics [More in this series]
Contains
Fondane, Benjamin, 1898-1944. Lundi essentiel. Selections. English [Browse]
Summary note
"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.
Notes
Translations of selections from Fontane's various philosophical works, including Lundi existentiel (Publisher's information).
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Action note
Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
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.
ISBN
  • 9781590178980 ((paperback))
  • 159017898X ((paperback))
LCCN
^^2015028859
OCLC
919452138
RCP
H - S
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