Doświadczenie mistyczne w opowiadaniach Alef i Pismo boga Jorge Luisa Borgesa

• Authors: Miksa, Joanna

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PL

Mystical Experience in The Aleph and The Writing of The God by Jorge Luis Borges

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

Jorge Luis Borges; The Aleph; God; The Writing of The God; mysticism

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Internetowy Magazyn Filozoficzny Hybris
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 20

Dates

published

2013

Contributors

author

Miksa, Joanna

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Uniwersytet Łódzki

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URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/21502