Uncorrected paperswallace matson 4 excellent essays on spinoza start there. Ways into reading spinoza philosophical bibliotherapy. Dir unas cuantas palabras y luego vendr lo esencial, nuestro dilogo. Jorge luis borges wrote, as most of my people had been soldiers and i knew i would never be, i felt ashamed, quite early, to be a bookish kind of person and not a man of action. Borges lo retrata fielmente, con abrumadora precision y lo deja, como al coronel. Borges reflexiona sobre spinoza baruch spinoza dios. Roberto leon ponczek, which describes the great influence that the jewish philosopher baruch spinoza. Check out spinoza by jorge luis borges on amazon music. Jorge luis borges 18991986 was an argentine poet, essayist, and author of short stories. In the event things got worse, and spinoza gave up the idea of publishing the ethics, believing that it would create such a cloud of hostility as to obscure, in the minds even of reasonable people, the real meaning of its arguments. Practical philosophy by gilles deleuze, looking for spinoza.
At a first look, you may open the book to find dry definitions, arcane axioms and a series of propositions, pareddown to provide an economical and rigorously argued logical progression from premises. Jorge luis borges was taught at home until the age of 11, was bilingual in spanish and english, reading shakespeare in the latter at the age of twelve. A selection from the writings of jorge luis borges, edited by emir rodriguez monegal and alastair reid new york. Try not to get put off by the appearance of the geometrical method. This early introduction to literature started him on a path toward a. Jorge luis borges came from a notable argentine family that included british ancestry. The best of jorge luis borges score a book s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. In the same tongue in which spinoza refuted the jewish authorities who brought about his expulsion from the amsterdam synagogue, three centuries later an argentinean writer, long since blind, dictated a sonnet entitled baruch spinoza. See also translation by willis barnstone in borges selected poems, edited by alexander coleman. His father was a versatile intellectual whose library was full of english books that borges read growing up. Spinoza borges poem in spanish borges and i borges spinoza in borges lookingglass by marcelo abadi. Borges reflexiona sobre spinoza 1 por jorge lus borges.