Jorge Luis Borges :$bThought and Knowledge in the XXth Century /$cAlfonso De Toro, Fernando De Toro (eds.)

The central endeavour of the colloquium was the study of Jorge Luis Borges as a writer, thinker and philosopher from a literary, scientific and philosophical perspective within the theory of culture. Having Borges as a pivotal object of study of a colloquium, it is not an accident or the mere result of a literary preference of the colloquium's organizers. Rather, it is due to the very fact that Borges represents one of the pillars of contemporary thinking in all its dimensions. This thinking was formulated by Borges fifty years ago, making Borges not only a 'pioneer' of contemporary debates but the one who introduced them in the first place as paradigmatic issues in the XXth century. Thus, Borges entails a point of departure about how to think culture. He reformulates the theory of signs, philosophy, the concept of literature and theory of culture, particularly Latin American, which currently is being developed in cultural studies. These formulations are also finding their place in Germany in publications such as those by Birgit Scharlau (Latinamerika Denken. Kulturtheoretische Grenzgange zwischen Moderne und Postmoderne, 1995), Herman Herlinghaus and Monika Walter (Postmodernidad en la periferia. Enfoques latinoamericanos de la nueva teoría cultural, 1994) and Fernando de Toro and Alfonso de Toro (Borders and Margins: Post-Colonialism andPost-Modemism, 1995), just to provide some examples of the vast critical and theoretical production in this field elaborated in Latin America, Canada, and the U.S.A. One of the aims of the colloquium, and the publications presented in this volume, is to place Borges' work in a context of inquiry which is not often considered in its At the same time, in the so called "cosmogonía melodramática de Valentino" (ibid: 215), Borges found the "admirable idea: el mundo imaginado como un proceso esencialmente fútil, como un reflejo lateral y perdido de viejos episodios celestes. La creación como hecho casual" (ibid: 215). CONTENTS Preface Jorge Luis Borges, Religions and the Mystical Experience Borges, or the Mystique of Silence: What was on the other Side of the Zahir Textual Space and the Art of Chinese Gardening in Borges' "The Garden of Forking Paths" De-Narrativizing the Populist State Apparatus: Borges' "La lotería en Babilonia" Borges/Derrida and Writing Borges/Derrida/Foucault: Pharmakeus!Heterotopia or Beyond Literature ('hors-littératuré) : Writing, Phantoms, Simulacra, Masks, the Carnival and ... Atlön/Tlön, Ykva/Uqbar, Hlaer, Jangr, Hrön(n)/Hrönir, Ur and Other Figures Borges and Mauthner: From Philosophy to Critique of Language The Most Consistent Idealism According to Borges: The Negation of Time Borges and Calvino: Chaosmos Unleashed? Some Aspects of the Problem of Time in the Works of Jorge Luis Borges: An Eclectic between Plato and the Theory of Relativity Borges: Cultural Theory and Criticism "Nazism is Uninhabitable": Borges, the Holocaust, and the Expansion of Knowledge The Superstitious and the Truthful Ethics of the Reader Circling the Cross, Crossing the Circle: On Borges and Chesterton Borges' 'Baroquism' Borges between the Printing Press and the Hypertext Authors of this Volume

Jewish Writings from the Hellenistic-Roman Period is a collection of apocrypha and Old Testament pseudoepigrapha along with other ancient Jewish writings of importance for the understanding of the cultural realities in the epoch of ancient Judaism and early Christianity. The texts are made accessible in academically precise translations with brief introductions and comments. The series is intended for teachers and students of Bible studies, Jewish studies, Ancient Near Eastern studies (and related disciplines), Egyptology, the History of Religion and Culture, and for the general reader interested in cultural and religious history.

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