De-Narrativizing the Populist State Apparatus: Borges' "La lotería en Babilonia"

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. CONTENTS 5
3. Preface 7
4. Jorge Luis Borges, Religions and the Mystical Experience 15
5. Borges, or the Mystique of Silence: What was on the other Side of the Zahir 29
6. Textual Space and the Art of Chinese Gardening in Borges' "The Garden of Forking Paths" 71
7. De-Narrativizing the Populist State Apparatus: Borges' "La lotería en Babilonia" 107
8. Borges/Derrida and Writing 115
9. Borges/Derrida/Foucault: Pharmakeus!Heterotopia or Beyond Literature ('hors-littératuré) : Writing, Phantoms, Simulacra, Masks, the Carnival and ... Atlön/Tlön, Ykva/Uqbar, Hlaer, Jangr, Hrön(n)/Hrönir, Ur and Other Figures 129
10. Borges and Mauthner: From Philosophy to Critique of Language 155
11. The Most Consistent Idealism According to Borges: The Negation of Time 167
12. Borges and Calvino: Chaosmos Unleashed? 175
13. Some Aspects of the Problem of Time in the Works of Jorge Luis Borges: An Eclectic between Plato and the Theory of Relativity 207
14. Borges: Cultural Theory and Criticism 241
15. "Nazism is Uninhabitable": Borges, the Holocaust, and the Expansion of Knowledge 255
16. The Superstitious and the Truthful Ethics of the Reader 263
17. Circling the Cross, Crossing the Circle: On Borges and Chesterton 289
18. Borges' 'Baroquism' 303
19. Borges between the Printing Press and the Hypertext 327
20. Authors of this Volume 353