Existential Monday :
Fondane, Benjamin, 1898-1944.
Existential Monday : Philosophical essays / Benjamin Fondane ; translated from the French and edited by Bruce Baugh. - New York : New York Review Books, [2016] - xxxix, 118 pages ; 21 cm - New York Review Books classics .
Translations of selections from Fontane's various philosophical works, including Lundi existentiel (Publisher's information).
Includes bibliographical references.
"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"--
9781590178980 (paperback)
Existentialism.
B819 / .F56 2016
Existential Monday : Philosophical essays / Benjamin Fondane ; translated from the French and edited by Bruce Baugh. - New York : New York Review Books, [2016] - xxxix, 118 pages ; 21 cm - New York Review Books classics .
Translations of selections from Fontane's various philosophical works, including Lundi existentiel (Publisher's information).
Includes bibliographical references.
"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"--
9781590178980 (paperback)
Existentialism.
B819 / .F56 2016