Introduction: Borges and the letter of philosophy / David E. Johnson -- Nothing and everything : theoretical and practical nihilism in Borges / Stephen Gingerich -- Borges as antiphilosopher / Bruno Bosteels -- Three versions of divisibility : Borges, Kant, and the quantum / William Eggington -- The fiction of possibility / Krzysztof Ziarek -- The difference that time makes : hopelessness and potency in Borges's El Aleph / Santiago Colás -- Crossbreeds : aesthetics misencounters politics in El evangelio según Marcos / Brett Levinson -- Newness, world language, alterity : on Borges's mark / Alberto Morieas -- Before the law / Kate Jenckes Borges -- Borges's duels : friends, enemies, and the fictions of history / Eva Horn -- Antecedents of an unexpected poetic affinity : Jorge Luis Borges as reader of Martin Buber / Lisa Block de Behar |