Existential Monday
Subtitle: philosophical essays
By: Benjamin Fondane ; translated from the French and edited by Bruce Baugh
Contributors: Baugh, Bruce, editor, translator; Rubens, Andrew, editor, translator
Series: New York Review Books classics; New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9781590178980
Subjects: Existentialism
Work titles: Works
Description: "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"--
Notes: Translations of selections from Fontane's various philosophical works, including Lundi existentiel (Publisher's information).

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A Note on the Text; title: Acknowledgments; title: Existential Monday and the Sunday of History; title: Preface for the Present Moment; title: Man Before History, or, The Sound and the Fury; title: Boredom; title: Selected Bibliography; title: Notes.