| Mazes and Amazements: Borges and Western Philosophy Contributor(s): Canaparo, Claudio (Other), Mualem, Shlomy (Author) |
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ISBN: 1787071979 ISBN-13: 9781787071971 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $73.31 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 868.62 |
| LCCN: 2016963042 |
| Series: Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.8" W x 8.8" (1.00 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Russia - Religious Orientation - Christian - Cultural Region - Germany - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Borges gained his first lessons in philosophy from his father while still a young boy - an intimate home schooling that grew into a long-term obsession. Its ubiquitous presence in his thought and writing has made him one of the most distinctive literary philosophers in the West, expressing itself in a wide-ranging array of fictional essays, metaphysical parables, philosophical poetry, and multifaceted literary artifacts. In contrast to the prevailing perception of Borges as a dogmatic sceptic for whom philosophy serves solely aesthetic or rhetorical purposes, this volume proposes a novel approach for understanding Borges as an intellectual, together with an interpretive structure for comprehending his work, based on a systematic examination of the complex relations between literary writing and Western philosophy in his oeuvre. Offering a reading of selected Borgesian texts in the light of the Western philosophers of whom he is most enamoured, and analyzing the way in which philosophical theories underpin his texts, it illustrates the fundamental tension of Borges' writing as a manifestation of what he calls the intellectual instinct. |