Latin American Philosophy
Subtitle: Currents, Issues, Debates
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780253341808
Subjects: Political Philosophy; Social Philosophy; Philosophy; History & Surveys - Modern; Latin America; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; General; Political; Philosophy, Latin American
First sentence: In the imaginary worlds of Jorge Luis Borges, from which spew forth-as if by magical incantation-improbable but not impossible creatures, antinomian but not ontological contradictions, there exist encyclopedias that, by virtue of having entries on improbable subjects, such as the cities of Tlon and Uqbar, make these subjects real.