Conceptions of the absurd : from surrealism to the existential thought of Chestov and Fondane
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Conceptions of the absurd : from surrealism to the existential thought of Chestov and Fondane
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Legenda : European Humanities Research Centre of the University of Oxford, 2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-254) and index
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Description
No century in history questioned the meaning of existence or manifested such intense fascination with "the absurd" as the 20th. Of the varying interpretations of the absurd to attract French intellectuals and artists in the 1920s and '30s, two competing conceptions were to provide major reference points: the Surrealist "free functioning of thought", and the existential critique of rational discourse elaborated by Leon Chestov (1866-1938) and Benjamin Fondane (1898-1944). While examining the existential line of interpretation, this volume aims to show that Chestov and Fondane's project found support and illustration in the dissident views held by authors working on the boundaries of Surrealism (including Artaud, Gilbert-Lecomte and Daumal).
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements, Note on References, Introduction, 1 Places in the Mind: Self-Evidence and Consciousness of Self, 2 The Powerless Subject: Forms of Negative Reconstruction, 3 Time and History: Forms of Temporal Existence, 4 Individual Choice and Freedom: Between the Categorical Imperative and the Suspension of the Ethical, Conclusions, Bibliography, Index
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