{"product_id":"9781590178997","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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180274761968,"sku":"9781590178997","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590178997_p0.jpg?v=1763809750","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590178997","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}