Isbn: 9781900755474 - conceptions of the absurd: from surrealism to chestov's and fondane's existential thought: from surrealism to the existential thought of chestov and fondane (legenda main series) (3 Ergebnisse)

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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Fotiade, RomonaRamona Fotiade is a Lecturer in French at the University of Glasgow.The concept of the Absurd was a source of fascination for artists and intellectuals throughout the twentieth century. Two interpretations in particular were to provi.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The concept of the Absurd was a source of fascination for artists and intellectuals throughout the twentieth century. Two interpretations in particular were to provide major reference points for French writers in the 1920s and 1930s: the Surrealist 'free functioning of thought', and the existential critique of rational discourse elaborated by Leon Chestov(1866-1938) and Benjamine Fondane(1898-1944). In this highly original study, Fotiade examines the less familiar existential line, and shows that Chestov and Fondane's project found both support and illustration in the force-field of the Surrealist movement. the work of such dissident writers as Antonin Artuad, Roger Gilbert-Lecomte and Rene Daumal takes on wider intellectual context.…