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Existential Monday: Philosophical Essays

By Benjamin Fondane; Bruce Baugh; Andrew Rubens

Book information

Publisher
NYRB Classics
Year
2016
ISBN
159017898X, 9781590178980
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
508 kB (520000 bytes)
Edition
Paperback
Pages
160\0
Time added
2019-02-14 11:22:17

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 Mondayis 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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