Chaos and Cosmos - The Imaginary and the Political in Jorge Luis Borges

This unprecedented exploration of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges presents him as a thinker of the political whose prolific fiction responded to totalitarianism. Martín Plot contextualizes Borges' work with other critical responses to totalitarianism from Claude Lefort, Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Carl Schmitt.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
I - Contextualizing Borges
Chapter 1: Tlön as Political Form
Chapter 2: The Aleph and the Argentine Cultural Tradition
Chapter 3: History, the Mother of Truth
II - Interrogating the Political
Chapter 4: Chaos and Cosmos
Chapter 5: Dreams and Nightmares
Chapter 6: The Same and the Other
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

By Martín Plot

Summary

This unprecedented exploration of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges presents him as a thinker of the political whose prolific fiction responded to totalitarianism. Martín Plot contextualizes Borges’ work with other critical responses to totalitarianism from Claude Lefort, Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Carl Schmitt.

Product details

• Authors: Mart?n Plot, Martin Plot, Martín Plot
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.07.2024
• EAN: 9781538178676
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-7867-6
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Social Imaginaries
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form