num_pages: 160
description: Benjamin Fondanewho 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 Borgess friend and publisher and died in Auschwitzwas 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 freedomthe State History the Law the Idea. Existential Monday  the first selection of his philosophical work to appear in English includes four of Fondane's most thought-provoking and important texts Existential Monday and the Sunday of History Preface for the Present Moment Man Before History (co-translated by Andrew Rubens) and Boredom. Here Fondane until now little-known except to specialists emerges as one of the enduring French philosophers of the twentieth century.
language: English
title: Existential Monday: Philosophical Essays
publisher: NYRB Classics