William Egginton Boeken

Exploring the intersection of love, science, and philosophy, this book delves into the insights of poet Jorge Luis Borges, physicist Werner Heisenberg, and philosopher Immanuel Kant. Each figure grapples with the complexities of human experience and knowledge, revealing that love inherently involves loss, reality is never fully describable, and human understanding has its limits. Through their reflections, the author highlights the profound mystery of existence and our relationship to it, offering a captivating examination of how these themes intertwine across disciplines.

Thinking With Borges engages the most pressing and persistent questions of the philosophical tradition—including those of time, eternity, politics, law, justice, language, reality, identity and memory—through original and often brilliant readings of the Borgesian archive. Going beyond Borges’s self-deprecating claim that he deployed the philosophical canon only for aesthetic purposes, the contributors to Thinking With Borges demonstrate that he seeks to answer the most enduring philosophical questions in ways that both contest and extend the philosophical tradition.

400 years after the publication of Don Quixote (1605-15), William Egginton reveals how Cervantes came to invent what we now call fiction, and how fiction changed the world