Benjamin Fondane et la philosophie de la crise.

The main aims of this paper are: 1) to analyse the philosophical texts of the Romanian-French poet and thinker Benjamin Fondane in order to highlight the tragic and paradoxical manner in which the personal identity is formed under the auspices of the crisis of the self; 2) to connect his philosophy of the crisis with the Avant-Garde movement; 3) to identify Fondane's place within the movement of Existential philosophy from the first half of the 20th century, but also his criticism on the Rationalism and the Husserlian phenomenology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]