Beschreibung:
Martín Plot is research professor of political theory at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET, Argentina) and Institute of Advanced Social Studies (IDAES/UNSAM, Argentina.) He is also research fellow in the Political Thought, Aesthetics and Politics Program at the School of Critical Studies, CalArts.
This unprecedented exploration of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges presents him as a thinker of the political whose prolific fiction responded to totalitarianism. Martín Plot contextualizes Borges' work with other critical responses to totalitarianism from Claude Lefort, Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Carl Schmitt.
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