Rethinking Philosophy with Borges, Zambrano, Paz, and Plato

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In Rethinking Philosophy with Borges, Zambrano, Paz, and Plato, Hugo Moreno argues that in Ficciones, Claros del bosque, and El mono gramtico, Jorge Luis Borges, Mara Zambrano, and Octavio Paz practice a literary way of philosophizinga way of seeking and communicating knowledge of reality that takes up analogical procedures. They deploy analogy as an indispensable and irreplaceable heuristic tool and literary device to convey their insight and perplexities on the nature of existence. Borges ironic approach involves reading and writing philosophy as fiction. Zambranos poetic reason is a mode of writing and thinking based on an imaginative sort of recollection that is ultimately a visionarys poetizing technique. Pazs poetic thinking relies on analogy to correlate and harmonize an array of worldviews, ideas, and discourses.

In the Appendix, the author shows that Plato's Republic is a forerunner of this way of doing philosophy in literature. Moreno suggests that in the Republic, Plato reconciles philosophy and poetry and creates a rational prose poetry that fuses argumentation and narration, dialectical and analogical reasoning, and abstract concepts and poetic images.

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"This is a sweeping, path-breaking work for its careful exploration of relationships between philosophy and literature in the Greek, Anglo, and Hispanic traditions."

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Hugo Moreno is visiting assistant professor of Lewis and Clark College.