Existential Monday Philosophical Essays |
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Author:
| Fondane, Benjamin |
Translator:
| Baugh, Bruce |
Editor:
| Baugh, Bruce |
Introduction by:
| Baugh, Bruce |
ISBN: | 978-1-59017-898-0 |
Publication Date: | May 2016 |
Publisher: | New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
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Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $15.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionBenjamin 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.