Unthinking Thinking: Jorge Luis Borges, Mathematics, and the New Physics - Hardcover

Merrell, Floyd

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557530114 ISBN 13: 9781557530110

Publisher: Purdue University Press, 1991

Synopsis

This authoritative study explores the scientific and mathematical cultural milieu that patterns much of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges's narrative design. Although criticism of Borges's fiction and essays has long emphasized philosophical traditions, Merrell expands the context of this interrogation of traditions by revealing how early twentieth-century and contemporary mathematics and physics also participated in a similar exploration. Topics treated include the semiotic flows of paradox and contradiction, the patterns of infinities, the limits of natural and mathematical languages, and the narrative function in scientific theory. Against this, background, Merrell provides incisive readings of Borges's complex fiction and essays.

About this edition

• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 1557530114
• ISBN 13: 9781557530110
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300