Martin Plot

Chaos and Cosmos

The Imaginary and the Political in Jorge Luis Borges

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 158mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781538178676
• ISBN-10: 1538178672
• Artikelnr.: 70065085

Autorenporträt

By Martín Plot

Inhaltsangabe

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