Arthur Rose. Literary Cynics: Borges, Beckett, Coetzee. Bloomsbury, 2017.

alEph and BORGES

as is known, Aleph began life in this world very long before we did, about five millennia ago, in the most privileged and closely guarded precincts of the Egyptian pyramids.1 The hieroglyph profile of its bull head can be seen quite clearly in the spells recorded in the Book of the Dead over the many centuries and dynasties that comprise the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms. Surviving shifts in fas...

Philosophy as Literature: the Case of Borges I. Borges the Artist and Borges the Thinker

For you took it, taking a look, that he was there, supposing quite correctly that things would not have looked that way unless he was. (This is not Dretske's example, but I hope it does not botch his point.) The third point, implicit of course in those others, is -that, while in a sense what we can see is simply what is there to be seen, there is no such ineluctable limit to what we can 'get to...

The Decompression of Meta - Borges in ” Borges and I ”

I nspired by the strategic operation of mental spacing and conceptual blending in semantics engineered by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner, it will be the intention of this piece to subject a slightly modified extension of this operation in the effort to resolve the rather problematic issue of the “I” in Borges’ Borges and I. By selecting this rather succinct and enigmatic text of this stripe ...

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Borges ’ Refutation of Nominalism in

imone de Beauvoir recalls that when she first made the acquaintance of Jean-Paul Sartre he, then still a young man, proudly and somewhat hubristically declared that when he became older he wanted to be Stendhal and Spinoza (Cérémonie 182, 228). Not satisfied with the dream of being merely a great writer or a great philosopher, Sartre hoped to pursue both academic vocations at the same time. For...