Mazes and Amazements: Borges and Western Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9781787071971 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 272 str.

Shlomy Mualem

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Part I: Philosophical Inquisitions - Chapter 1: Labyrinthal Paradigms: Western Philosophy in Borges' uvre- Chapter 2: Literary Philosophers: Mythos and Logos in Borges and Plato - Chapter 3: Philosophy and Ideology: Dialectical Orientalism in Borges' Writings - Part II: Comparative Perspectives - Chapter 4: Borges and Schopenhauer: Microcosms and Aesthetic Observation - Chapter 5: Borges, Heraclitus, and the River of Time - Chapter 6: A View from Eternity: The Archetypal Quest - Chapter 7: Borges and Levinas Face to Face: Writing and the Riddle of Subjectivity - Chapter 8: Narrative Aspect Change and Alternating Systems of Justice: A Wittgensteinian Reading of Borges - Chapter 9: Borges, Wittgenstein, and Kierkegaard on the Boundaries of Language: Mystical Silence and Indirect Communication - Chapter 10: Borges and Berkeley: Idealism and the Ontology of the Fantastical Object

O autorze

Shlomy Mualem is Head of the Department of Comparative Literature at Bar-Ilan University. His principal fields of interest, informed by a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, are literature and philosophy and their interrelation, spanning such figures and fields as Jorge Luis Borges, Greek and modern philosophy, aesthetics, East-West theories, and Kabbalistic poetics.