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• Title:
  Doświadczenie mistyczne w opowiadaniach Alef i Pismo boga Jorge Luisa Borgesa
• Creator:
  Miksa, Joanna
• Contributor:
  Uniwersytet Łódzki
• Description:
  In my paper I undertake an analysis of chosen short stories of Jorge Luis Borges in which the problem of mysticism occupies an important place. I claim that Borges, whose works are known for covering philosophical issues of most fundamental importance, is a writer who describes the impossibility of reaching a mystical experience in the modern world. As far as philosophical background of Borges is concerned there exists a well-spread opinion that Borges, who readily confessed his admiration for Berkeley and Hume, was an idealist himself. My point is that even though the Berkeleyan epistemology influenced Borges, there is a fundamental difference between those thinkers which consists of the fact that in the philosophy of Berkeley there is a place for God. As a result it can be claimed that the world as an object of God's experience has a stable existence. There is no place for such a privileged being neither in the ontology nor epistemology proposed by Borges. The world as described by him can be called a fiction because there is no privileged subject whose experience would not be accidental and private. For that reason the description of mystical experience is always a failure when it refers to modern times. I demonstrate it at length by the analysis of the short story entitled The Aleph, while taking into consideration other texts as well.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  © Internetowy Magazyn Filozoficzny HYBRIS 2013
• Date:
  2017.04.28;
  2013
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  Polish
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Instytut Filozofii Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Internetowy Magazyn Filozoficzny Hybris;20
• Subject:
  Jorge Luis Borges;
  The Aleph;
  God;
  The Writing of The God;
  mysticism
• Identifier:
  1689-4286;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/21502
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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