By Borges, Jorge Luis; Johnson, David E.; Egginton, William; Borges, Jorge Luis
Pondering With Borges engages the main urgent and chronic questions of the philosophical tradition—including these of time, eternity, politics, legislation, justice, language, fact, id and memory—through unique and infrequently magnificent readings of the Borgesian archive. Going past Borges’s self-deprecating declare that he deployed the philosophical canon just for aesthetic reasons, the members to considering With Borges show that he seeks to reply to the main enduring philosophical questions in ways in which either contest and expand the philosophical culture
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More importantly, we will be able to see how for Borges literature achieves what philosophy can only dream of doing. This series is composed of three essays related by common themes and reference points. In the first, “A Note about (towards) George Bernard Shaw,” Borges characterizes the Argentine attitude in undeniably nihilistic terms. He begins with a sort of theoretical nihilism: “the Argentine feels that the universe is nothing other than a manifestation of chance, the fortuitous combination of Democritus’s atoms; philosophy does not interest him” (Otras 220).
18 For Borges, though, this pleasure is no less rare in writing than in the world of our bodily destinies. Happiness, in particular through friendship if not on a par with friendship, would be the general name of the domain that lies just slightly beyond language. However, even this typically antiphilosophical disjunction between happiness and metaphysics, or between happiness and writing, does not constitute the final word in Borges. In a subtle rephrasing of the myth of Ariadne, the poem “The Fable’s Thread” (“El hilo de la fábula”) from his last book, Los conjurados, actually suggests the possibility of a reconciliation in the final instance: The guiding thread is lost; the labyrinth is lost as well.
There is something paradoxical in it, even; the activity itself seems to communicate above all the meaningfulness of meaninglessness. Jean-Luc Nancy’s The Sense of the World (in French, Le Sens du monde, which could also be translated as “the meaning of the world”) takes this paradox as its point of departure. ”23 In other words, and taking into account that “sense” is also “meaning,” the lack of meaning that nihilism announces and explores is accompanied by a reflection upon meaning that attempts to get beyond the way in which meaning has heretofore constituted itself.