Borges between Singularity and Sovereignty (Suny series, Literature...in Theory)

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Borges between Singularity and Sovereignty (Suny series, Literature...in Theory)

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 202 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9798855805413
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Full Description

A fresh look at how Borges's most celebrated stories critique various forms of sovereignty, from philosophical ideals of mastery to historical instances of fascism.

Jorge Luis Borges was one of the principal writers of the twentieth century to bring literature to bear on the relationship between the political and the philosophical. Although often regarded as a master of the abstract and universal, his fiction is equally concerned with the singular—with the unique, odd, and contingent. Kate Jenckes revisits Borges's most well-known stories with fresh eyes, revealing their persistent preoccupation with singularity, understood at base as that which exceeds sovereignty. Borges Between Singularity and Sovereignty explores Borges's portrayal of the limits of sovereignty in a range of registers, from stylized depictions of imperialism and fascism to the structure of subjectivity with its dependence on perception, memory, and language. Through the cracks in different ideals of sovereignty emerges a mode of relation that Borges reluctantly calls the aesthetic, which serves to name a non-sovereign approach to the singularities of life and historicity.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction: Reading After Borges

1. World (as) War: "The Maker," "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," "Deutsches Requiem," "The Garden of Forking Paths"

2. Walls, Towers, Books: Borges with Kafka: "The Wall and the Books," "Kafka and His Precursors," "On Exactitude in Science"

3. Incalculable Alliances: "The Library of Babel," "The Lottery in Babylon," "On the Cult of Books," "A Defense of the Kabbalah," "Ramon Llull's Thinking Machine," "The Total Library"

4. Homo Domesticus: "The South," "Man on the Threshold"

5. Pyramids and Prophecies: "Funes the Memorious," "A History of Eternity," "The Doctrine of Cycles"

6. Unearthing the Archive: "The Aleph," "The Zahir"

7. Throwing the Race: "Avatars of the Tortoise, "The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise," "The Nothingness of Personality," "Death and the Compass"

In-conclusion

Notes
Works Cited
Index