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PLOT Martin Fernando
artículos
Título:
History, the Mother of Truth. Borges and the Pragmatist Imagination
Autor/es:
MARTIN PLOT
Revista:
International Journal of Social Imaginaries
Editorial:
Brill
Referencias:
Año: 2023 vol. 2 p. 1 - 26
ISSN:
2772-7858
Resumen:
In this paper I offer a new reading of some of the philosophical, social, and political,implications of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges fiction and non-fiction work. The aimof this new reading is to show that Borges exhibited broad philosophical sympathies forthe pragmatist imagination. The papers first section offers a genealogy of Borgesearly fiction pieces and a close reading of Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote. It isin this text that Borges engaged William James in his fiction writing. In the secondsection, I present a broad picture of pragmatism, from its origins in the work of Peirceto its most recent revival in Richard Rortys tour de force. Finally, I analyze Borgesessays on James and suggest they are evidence that the Argentines interest in Jameswas related to something more comprehensive than a mere attraction for the Jamesworks aesthetic value.