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Liberty, Individuality, and Democracy in Jorge Luis Borges (Hardcover)
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Liberty, Individuality, and Democracy in Jorge Luis Borges (Hardcover)
Series: Politics, Literature, & Film
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This book seeks to fill a double lacuna in Borges scholarship. For
one, this scholarship has been largely developed through the lens
of literary and cultural studies, and not by political theorists
who bring a distinct disciplinary perspective into the reading of
literary works. Secondly, mainstream interpreters have overlooked
or have not analyzed enough Borges's political sympathies. This
book does not evaluate if these sympathies are truthful to
political and historical facts or philosophical theories; rather,
she shows in which aspects and around which topics Borges finds
inspiration and gives literary form to the political. His texts
abound with concepts and events such as liberty, individuality,
war, and revolution, and they deal with topics such as the
legitimacy of authority, the limits of reason, and the principle of
representation, among others. This book also addresses Borges's
democratic sensitivity and his critique of populism and militarism
as related to salient national and global historical events that
inspired his works. Above all, it calls attention to Borges's
belief in the pre-eminence of individual liberty, his rejection of
political oppression, and his warning against civic indifference
brought about by an isolated individualism. This book may be of
interest to students and professors of politics, philosophy and
literature. It may also interest literary critics and readers who
want to approach Borges's works with a political rather than a
literary or a cultural lens.
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