Contributions

  • Baugh, Bruce, editor, translator - Contributor
  • Rubens, Andrew, editor, translator - Contributor

Publication

2016 - New York Review Books, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

29,500 words, Guess

Page Count

118 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC194
  • LCCB819 .F56 2016
  • LCCB819
and 1 more
  • LCCB819.F56 2016

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"--

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Series Statement

  • New York Review Books classics

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