Philosophy and Literature in Jorge Luis Borges: ¿Aliados o Enemigos?

In Garry L. Hagberg, Fictional Worlds and Philosophical Reflection. pp. 79-105 (2022)
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Abstract

Are philosophy and literature allies or enemies in Jorge Luis Borges's fictions? In this paper, I argue that Borges can satisfy membership in the allies camp because his fictions provide the imaginative scenarios the allies believe are so necessary to this coalition; however, because his stories question philosophy's hold on reality, they can also seem to fall into the enemies camp by countervailing any claim philosophy has on reality and truth; although, ultimately, the manner in which Borges forges an alliance between philosophy and literature will be for reasons not traditionally accepted by those in either the allies or enemies camps.

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José Luis Fernández
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Philosophy as/and/of Literature.Arthur C. Danto - 1984 - Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 58 (1):5 - 20.
Borges, the Apologist for Idealism.Marina Martín - 1998 - The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 25:23-30.

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