Thinking with Borges : William Egginton and David E. Johnson, Editors.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (224 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- The Contributors -- Introduction Borges and the Letter of Philosophy -- Nothing and Everything: Theoretical and Practical Nihilism in Borges -- Borges as Antiphilosopher -- Three Versions of Divisibility: Borges, Kant, and the Quantum -- The "Fiction" of Possibility -- The Difference that Time Makes: Hopelessness and Potency in Borges's 'El Aleph' -- Crossbreeds: Aesthetics Misencounters Politics in "El evangelio según Marcos" -- Newness, World Language, Alterity: On Borges's Mark -- Borges Before the Law -- Borges's Duels: Friends, Enemies, and the Fictions of History -- Antecedents of an Unexpected Poetic Affinity: Jorge Luis Borges as Reader of Martin Buber -- NOTES.