(P/B) EXISTENTIAL MONDAY

Παρουσίαση

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 the individual against those great abstractions that limit human freedom - the 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. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Introduction
A Note on the Text
Acknowledgments
Existential Monday and the Sunday of History
Preface for the Present Moment
Man Before History, or, The Sound and the Fury
Boredom
Selected Bibliography
Notes