Mazes And Amazements : Borges And Western Philosophy

Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Philosophical Inquisitions -- Chapter 1: Labyrinthal Paradigms: Western Philosophy in Borges' Oeuvre -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

• | Author: Shlomy Mualem
• | Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
• | Publication Date: Jan 31, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1787071979
• | ISBN-13: 9781787071971