{"product_id":"existential-monday-benjamin-fondane-9781590178980","title":"Existential Monday: Philosophical Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eBenjamin 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eExistential Monday\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Fondane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 159017898X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590178980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2016","brand":"Benjamin Fondane","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44919982751999,"sku":"9781590178980","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_302dd46f-18a6-4a90-b6e9-38e86723b69e.jpg?v=1710359896","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/existential-monday-benjamin-fondane-9781590178980","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}