Existential Monday
"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 t…
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- Full title :Existential Monday / by Benjamin Fondane ; edited, translated, and introduced by Bruce Baugh and Andrew Rubens.
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"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"--
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- Publication Date:2016.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):New York Review Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2016.
Notes
Translations of selections from Fontane's various philosophical works, including Lundi existentiel (Publisher's information).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781590178980, 159017898X
- oclc:on1290211684
- LC Classification:B819
- Dewey Decimal:194
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