Kant's Dog: On Borges, Philosophy, and the Time of Translation

by David E. Johnson

Book Overview

Kant's Dog provides fresh insight into Borges's preoccupation with the contradiction of the time that passes and the identity that endures. By developing the implicit logic of the Borgesian archive, which is most often figured as the universal demand for and necessary impossibility of translation, Kant's Dog is able to spell out Borges's responses to the philosophical problems that most concerned him, those of the constitution of time,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438442653
• ISBN13: 9781438442655
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"