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Original texts copyright © 2016 by Michel Carassou

Translation, introduction, and notes copyright © 2016 by Bruce Baugh;

copyright in the translation to “Man Before History” is shared with Andrew Rubens

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Cover image: Man Ray, Benjamin Fondane, c. 1925

© Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris / Telimage, 2014

Cover design: Katy Homans

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Fondane, Benjamin, 1898–1944. | Baugh, Bruce, editor, translator. | Fondane, Benjamin, 1898–1944. Lundi existentiel. Selections. English. Title:

Existential Monday / by Benjamin Fondane ; edited, translated, and introduced by Bruce Baugh.

Description: New York : New York Review Books, 2016. | Series: New York Review Books classics | Translations of selections from Fondane’s various philosophical works, including Lundi existentiel (Publisher’s information).

Identifiers: LCCN 2015028859 | ISBN 9781590178980 (paperback) Subjects:

LCSH: Existentialism. | BISAC: PHILOSOPHY / Essays. |

PHILOSOPHY / Political. | PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism.

Classification: LCC B819 .F56 2016 | DDC 194—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015028859

ISBN 978-1-59017-899-7

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