1st Edition
Conceptions of the Absurd From Surrealism to Chestov's and Fondane's Existential Thought
By Ramona Fotiade
Copyright 2002
270 Pages
by
Routledge
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... Read more
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
Biography
Ramona Fotiade is a Lecturer in French at the University of Glasgow.
